____/ Rex Ballard on Monday 31 December 2007 15:52 : \____
> On Dec 19, 8:27 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Linux in more than 90% of top supercomputers
>>
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>> | Other operating systems, such as AIX (4.8%), Solaris (0.4%) and Mac OS X
>> | (0.4%) make the list, but Linux is alone at the top, where it is used in
>> | 459 systems or 91.8% of the top supercomputer systems.
>> `----
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> http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2007/11/15/linux-in-more-than...
> http://tinyurl.com/2rponk
>>
>
> It's a bit ironic. Linux runs in some of the smallest computers,
> including the OLPC, but it also runs in over 86% of the largest
> computers as well.
>
> That's some pretty heavy duty scalability and performance, as well as
> some outstanding reliability.
>
> Linux is now putting such complex tasks as weather prediction,
> economic forcasting, and even statistical political analysis into more
> and more hands, with more real-time feedback. These days we can
> measure the popularity of a candidate DURING the debates, as people
> agree or disagree with the candidate. How long before we have real-
> time polling of a million or more people during public debates?
>
> Microsoft has some nice media editing tools, but Linux clusters are
> widely used to generate real-time complex 3D animations ranging from
> the special effects to Titanic to Shrek to Toy Story series, to
> SpiderMan and Fantastic 4. I think they might have tried to use
> Windows for the animations in Cat-Woman with Halle Barry, but I'm not
> sure.
The desktops are just that middle tier which Microsoft knows is most /visible/
to Joe Average. At the moment, Microsoft makes little money from bundling
('selling') Windows and far more money from licensing Office. We really need
ODF to thrive.
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