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Posts Tagged ‘red-hat’

Linux distros and Apple beat Microsoft’s homepage uptime

All Linux distributions have their own home base: their homepage. How well is this homepage taken care of and how well does it perform? To answer these questions we have monitored the uptime and load time of the homepages for 16 Linux distributions for a month.

And since it is a question we can’t resist asking: how do they compare to the homepages of corporate OS giants like Microsoft and Apple? We included those in this survey so that we could answer that question as well.

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This is the money being made TODAY in Open Source

There is a lot of money being made in Open Source, although the profitable companies are not always the ones you would expect.

While many companies don’t disclose detailed financial information we have dug around to find numbers for some well-known open source companies and projects to see how they are doing financially.

We start with perhaps the most famous of them all…

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Linux popularity across the globe

The Linux landscape is constantly changing and has a strong community of both developers and users. But where is Linux the most popular, and where are the different Linux distributions the most popular?
To try to answer these questions, we have looked at data from Google with the highly useful Insights for Search, which gave us [...]

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The seven largest Open Source deals ever

To say that there were some noise on the Web when Sun recently bought MySQL for $1 billion would be an understatement, to say the least. It’s the largest open source deal ever, and the latest in a series of large open source acquisitions.
We kind of understand why Sun thought MySQL was worth a whole [...]

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Hats off for Red Hat uptime

Red Hat, one of the more popular Linux distributions, especially for servers, is taking pretty good care of their website (which we assume runs on Red Hat Linux…).
Downtime for the Red Hat website in 2007

January 2h 30m
February 10m
March 1m
April 39m
May 0
June [...]

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Linux still topping downtime league in 2007

These are the downtimes so far in 2007 for the websites of some of the more famous OS developers, namely Microsoft, Apple, Sun, FreeBSD, Red Hat and Ubuntu.

(URLs link to the downtime report pages for the websites.)

Website Downtime
www.ubuntu.com 3h 32 min
www.redhat.com 2h 40 min
www.freebsd.org 1h 56 min
www.sun.com 1h 28 min
www.apple.com 38 min
www.microsoft.com 10 min

If you compare [...]

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Linux topping downtime league this month

We had a look at the websites of some of the more famous OS developers, namely Microsoft, Apple, Sun, FreeBSD, Red Hat and Ubuntu. So, how are they doing, downtime wise?
Downtime so far in January (URLs link to the downtime report pages for the websites):

Website Downtime
www.redhat.com 2h 30 min
www.ubuntu.com 1h 59 min
www.apple.com 5 min
www.sun.com [...]

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