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[-] tiz@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 weeks ago

Can we get a source for this image?

[-] superkret@feddit.org 6 points 2 weeks ago

Sure. Added it to the post.

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

We're gonna take the test, and we're gonna keep taking it until we get one hundred percent in the bitch!

[-] mx_smith@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

I’m confused on why they separate BSD from Unix. BSD is a Unix variant.

[-] dev_null@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago

To make it more specific I guess, what's the problem with that? It's like having a "people living on boats" and "people with no long term address". You could include the former in the latter, but then you are just conveying less information.

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[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago

Just need to do a dnf update on them all...

[-] snek_boi@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago

This looks impressive for Linux, and I’m glad FLOSS has such an impact! However, I wonder if the numbers are still this good if you consider more supercomputers. Maybe not. Or maybe yes! We’d have to see the evidence.

[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I wonder if the numbers are still this good if you consider more supercomputers.

Great question. My guess is not terribly different.

"Top 500 Supercomputers" is arguably a self-referential term. I've seen the term "super-computer" defined whether it was among the 500 fastest computer in the world, on the day it went live.

As new super-computers come online, workloads from older ones tend to migrate to the new ones.

So my impression is there usually aren't a huge number of currently operating supercomputers outside of the top 500.

When a super-computer falls toward the bottom of the top 500, there's a good chance it is getting turned off soon.

That said, I'm referring here only to the super-computers that spend a lot of time advertising their existence.

I suspect there's a decent number out there today that prefer not to be listed. But I have no reason to think those don't also run Linux.

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[-] Rogue@feddit.uk 5 points 2 weeks ago

Any idea how it'd look if broken down into distros? I'm assuming enterprise support would be favoured so Red Hat or Ubuntu would dominate?

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