On 14 Sep 2006, at 3:13AM, Andrew Crystall wrote:
On 14 Sep 2006 at 2:58, William T Goodall wrote:
It's not 'none' though is it? None/some/all are different you know.
OS X clearly has at least some of the open source advantages of Linux
and certainly a great more than Windows.
Nope. But to people like, say, the US Department of Defence, the
difference is quite clear.
That's because many scientists and engineers prefer to use a UNIX
environment and Linux has often displaced the ailing HP/Apollo/SGI
systems they previously used.
A cursory google search shows how they're using large numbers of
Linux systems, especially as heavy duty data processing units and
servers.
OS X also has a significant share in this market with several
supercomputing clusters in use.
http://www.apple.com/science/
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prefer it to Linux." - Bill Joy.
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