The #1 supercomputer in the world, the IBM Roadrunner, produced at a cost of nearly $100 million dollars, runs Fedora. IBM has been working on and contributing to Fedora, using it as a prototype for the new cell architecture that leads to this supercomputer.
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Member since:2007-09-06
For something like that, I'd have thought Debian for stability, Slack for tradition or Gentoo for a truly custom build for the hardware. With the mention of Red Hat, I just assumed it would be Enterprise rather than the community version with all the R/D code that is tested there first. A BSD could be a good choice too. It must require code in the stability relm of real-time certification with that many co-processing machines.
Oh.. all this talk of clustering is making me want to collect PS2 and throw them on a rack with an old laptop cluster master. Hm.. maybe I'll start by booting every machine in the house off a clusterix liveCD and see if I can make the lights dim.
Member since:2008-04-15
Ubuntu just has a rabid following.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora_(operating_system)#Fedora-based_distributions
The only distro i know in that list is yellow dog linux. There will be more Fedora users than any of it's offshoots.
http://www.debian.org/misc/children-distros
I'd also wager there are a lot more users of debian based distro's on desktops.
I don't like Ubuntu and i won't be using it any time soon but it is Debian based. If you count Ubuntu forks as well the list is even bigger.
So if fedora is THE main stream for Linux distro's where are the streams?
Member since:2005-07-06
You are of course missing out a hell lot of derivative distributions including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, OLPC etc.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DerivedDistributions
Member since:
2008-03-16
Of course it runs Fedora. What else did you think it would run, Windows? Fedora IS pretty much THE main stream for all Linux Distros, you know.
Ubuntu just has a rabid following.