Re: [News] In Delta Airlines, There is Linux on Every Seat
- Subject: Re: [News] In Delta Airlines, There is Linux on Every Seat
- From: Scott Nudds <void@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 22:32:13 -0400
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Scott Nudds wrote:
Yup, Linux is perfectly adequate for doing nothing with 100 percent
stability.
Peter Köhlmann wrote:
Right. *That* has to be the reason more than 70% in the top500 list of
supercomputers run under linux
Massively parallel computers had better run a kernel that has zero
lisencing fees for each of their thousands of CPU cores. If they didn't
OS lisencing costs alone would run into the tens of millions per year.
But of course we all know that Supercomputers use Unix because
Windows isn't available. Microsoft correctly doesn't care about a
market of 200 computers that will mean <nothing> to it's bottom line.
But of course the largest supercomputers are collective networks of
Windows boxes running software that is distributed via the network.
SETI on line was the first such distributed application, and there are
dozens of others.
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