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Old 10th May 2008
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Originally Posted by 18Googol2 View Post
It gonna be off topic a bit but Im wondering why Google uses Linux distro instead of BSD? Surely google techie guys know how good BSD is, so it must be a good reason behind the scene.

My educated guess would be they started with Linux and if they wanna switch to BSD, its time comsuming, costly and huge load of work, or simply BSD is not good for cluster?
Google uses $BSD too, e.g. for their Android they are using the libc of NetBSD etc. And even Firefox 3 uses FreeBSD jemalloc because it's the best of the best. So well, there is hype and on the other hand there is reality without hype Do you need some more examples? There are lots of it. $BSD is the calm giant
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