Linked by David Adams on Wed 29th Oct 2008 21:04 UTC, submitted by irbis
Would the internet as we know it exist without Linux? "Absolutely not", says Rich Menga. "Where Linux shines the most is in its server applications".
In the 1990's "There were thousands of Mom n' Pop ISPs that operated out of a garage and the vast majority of them were all running Linux. Windows couldn't do it back then and neither could MacOS. What would you have used that you could afford? Netware? Lotus Domino? HP-UX (that requires those refrigerator-sized HP servers)? Linux was literally the only OS out there that had the right price (free), ran similar to a Unix and could use existing computers of the time to connect customers.
The internet as we know it today predominantly runs on Linux. There's an extremely high probability that the internet connection you're using right now is connected through a Linux server - and routed through many other Linux servers along the way."
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Just goes to prove that you can manipulate statistics to prove anything. 52% of people know that.
I 2nd that. Not only is this a gross misuse of statistical data but the author clearly does not understand the subject. Stating that ISP servers run linux is actually quite wrong. Actually when it comes to ISPs BSD and unix in general is a little but more common than linux ( at least in my personal experience ). Oh and I really wouldn't go so far as to say that the power of linux is on the internet. If anything the power of linux is in being free.