__/ [ [H]omer ] on Monday 14 August 2006 13:34 \__
> Au79 wrote:
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>> CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
>>
>> Debian is a steadfastly noncommercial version of Linux. ... Red Hat
>> and Novell will remain HP's main Linux partners globally,
>> however. ...
>>
>><http://news.com.com/HP+offers+Debian+Linux+support/2100-7344_3-6104891.html>
>
> Makes sense that, of all Free distros, they should choose Debian,
> since it's a slower moving target than, say, Fedora Core, and thus
> conducive to long term support. Of course their historical ties with
> Perens, et al, undoubtedly influenced them too, apart from the
> apparent "customer demand".
I suspect that Google uses Debian very heavily in the datacentres. That's
approximately half a million boxes, at most. Having said that, Google buys a
lot of boxes from Dell.
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