well, considering I am most familiar with mac these days, that would be where a lot of my experience would work for me. Still, Linux does have its uses here. I can run it on hardware that OS X won't even look at and windows would just BARG over.
-eric On Jul 31, 2015, at 1:21 PM, Sesso wrote: > Where I work, we have a few thousand servers and about 95% are linux. I have > converted almost all of my office guys to linux or Mac minis for desktops. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Jul 31, 2015, at 4:13 AM, Eric Oyen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> well, >> take a look at craigslist parent company: Ebay. Fully 35% of their operation >> is Linux Centric. Mostly, its the 90,000 or so email and backend servers >> running in virtual machines (like VMware). THey also run windows on some >> desktops as well as an active directory infrastructure. However, one of >> their biggest usage bases inside the company are all of the Macbook pros >> they use. THere is a tiny sliver of OpenBSD border routers and load >> balancers as well. BTW, this information comes from a friend that works as a >> Sr. Systems Admin in the Infrastructure development Dept. >> >> -eric >> >>> On Jul 30, 2015, at 10:59 PM, Amy Nielsen wrote: >>> >>> Once again I like learning new things regarding open source, I had no idea >>> Craigslist did any of this. I am realizing how big and widespread Linux and >>> Open Source has become, it is exciting! >>> >>> On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Michael Havens <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I was perusing craigslist and noticed a link that said 'open source'. Being >>> the ever-curious lad of 44 I clicked the link and wish to share what I >>> found: >>> >>> <quote> >>> >>> craigslist is a big believer in open source software, and relies heavily on >>> Linux, MySQL, Perl, Apache, Sphinx, Redis, Haraka, and many others. >>> >>> craigslist (CL) has released the following open source projects: >>> >>> CL blob service - a simple HTTP-based, multi-master storage service >>> designed for scale-out and multi-datacenter deployments: >>> >>> • multi-master architecture with no single point of failure >>> • scales well for both read and write intensive workloads >>> • tracks TTLs for automatic expiration and purging of blobs >>> • designed for both local and multiple data center replication >>> • pluggable index and storage interface (uses SQLite for index and >>> filesystem for storage by default) >>> CL image service - large scale image resizing and processing HTTP service: >>> >>> • flexible API to choose any quality, size, and center-cropping >>> • automatically handles orientation operations from EXIF data >>> • stores resized images in the blob service (could use other stores) >>> memcache cluster proxy (MCP) - a high-performance modular clustering HTTP >>> reverse proxy: >>> >>> • high-performance event-driven daemon >>> • flexible configuration, easily extensible framework >>> • uses standard memcached memory store for caching >>> • supports PCRE and rule-based traffic routing by URL, headers, and more >>> • tracks health of origin servers, routes around failures >>> • provides configurable URL redirects, rewrites, and real-time header >>> transformations >>> In addition, craigslist contributes code to the following open source >>> projects: >>> >>> Haraka: >>> >>> • added the smtp_client code that helps support pooled connections for >>> proxy queues >>> • rewrote all of the smtp_proxy and smtp_forward code >>> • major contributions to the test suite >>> • plugin that does strict DNS checking, DNS access control lists >>> • contributions to bannering support >>> • logging infrastructure changes for more robust logging >>> • plugins for aliases, access lists, etc. >>> Redis: >>> >>> • perl-AnyEvent-Redis-Federated: an event-based redis client that >>> implements client-side sharding in Perl >>> • redis_util: s collection of utilities for node-redis >>> • provided support for included config files >>> Sphinx: >>> >>> • provided the original persistent connections implementation >>> • craigslist sponsors useful sphinx feature developments, such as the >>> TRUNCATE INDEX command for real-time sphinx >>> The craigslist Charitable Fund supports open source nonprofit organizations >>> including: >>> >>> • Apache Software Foundation >>> • Free Software Foundation >>> • Gnome Foundation >>> • Mozilla Foundation >>> • Open Source Initiative >>> • OpenStreetMap.us >>> • Perl Foundation >>> • PostgreSQL >>> • Python Software Foundation >>> • Software in the Public Interest >>> </quote> >>> >>> Isn't that cool! >>> -- >>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Amy Nielsen >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
