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~(-:
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