Most popular websites 6 out of 7 powered by GNU/Linux - concludes survey

Charles E Hill

Wed Feb 28 07:32:17 -0800 2007

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Okay, if this makes it over to Slashdot, expect the last paragraph to bring out the "BSD is dying" troll.

One thing worth noting is that none of them use FreeBSD which is claimed to power many high traffic portals including Yahoo. The reason provided is that many Linux distribution companies such as Red Hat and Novell provide standardization, and more importantly support not available on the same level in FreeBSD.

That being said, LAMP is popular for a reason.  It works, is reliable and pretty damn simple to configure and maintain.

Most popular websites 6 out of 7 powered by GNU/Linux - concludes survey

Sean Diggity

Wed Feb 28 08:21:00 -0800 2007

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"that power 7 most popular websites"?  Seems like careful wording...how did they choose those 7?  There are doubtless more popular sites and also sites with a similar popularity that provide other services.

A different sample might skew the data toward *BSD.  Anyway, this isn't really news (although good PR for free software).

Most popular websites 6 out of 7 powered by GNU/Linux - concludes survey

rubycodez

Thu Mar 01 05:14:56 -0800 2007

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yeah, I would have thought by some criteria Yahoo is a tad more popular than all those sites I've never even heard of, and it is powered by FreeBSD and does a heck of a lot more computation per user.

sample size

tallfred

Wed Feb 28 08:49:00 -0800 2007

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Be careful about drawing conclusions from a one mouse experiment.

That survey could fit on a single page questionare. The sample size is tiny compared to Netcraft.

sample size

karnowski

Wed Feb 28 11:29:40 -0800 2007

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"Tiny" is an understatement. I'd also dispute their "most popular" claim. I hadn't heard of 5/7 of them. Nothing to see here, move along.