okr765@lemmy.okr765.com to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoPearson complaining about using Linux to access my course materiallemmy.okr765.comimagemessage-square196fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1imagePearson complaining about using Linux to access my course materiallemmy.okr765.comokr765@lemmy.okr765.com to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square196fedilink
minus-squareBlameTheAntifa@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoThe funny thing is that their server is probably running on Linux.
minus-squareGreenKnight23@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agothey aren’t all. vast majority is Windows Server and IBM.
minus-squareAugustWest@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-22 months agoLol what? Linux servers are still dominant in market share.
minus-squareGreenKnight23@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoPearson directly, not globally.
minus-squareAugustWest@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoThat makes more sense. Thank you for the context.
minus-square_cryptagion [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoThat is both laughably wrong, and immediately verifiable as false. As far as server marketshare goes, Linux leads the pack with 62.7%.
minus-squareMehBlah@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoWindows has a laughable market share when it comes to webservers.
minus-squareGreenKnight23@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoI’m talking specifics, not globally.
minus-squareMehBlah@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoNearly all of my daughters sites she visited in college were nix servers. The exception being one administration machine she used for her payroll access as a RA.
minus-squaregamer@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoBy “nix” do you actually mean Nix, or do you mean “*nix” as any Unix derivative?
minus-squareTreczoks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoGuess what most IBM big irons are running nowadays?
minus-squareBillegh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoRHEL, since they bought red hat.
minus-squareTreczoks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoFor closed and proprietary stuff, and things that still run on FORTRAN and COBOL, yes. But about anything running a web frontend, it’s Linux (RHEL).
minus-squareTreczoks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoWell, AIX (one of IBMs UNIX variants) is old, and, AFAIK more or less legacy stuff. The other is RHEL, which is s Linux.
minus-squareGreenKnight23@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-22 months agoAIX (Unix), Windows, Powervm?
minus-squareM0oP0o@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoDust? (but really its not Linux or windows anyway)
The funny thing is that their server is probably running on Linux.
they aren’t all. vast majority is Windows Server and IBM.
Lol what? Linux servers are still dominant in market share.
Pearson directly, not globally.
That makes more sense. Thank you for the context.
That is both laughably wrong, and immediately verifiable as false. As far as server marketshare goes, Linux leads the pack with 62.7%.
Windows has a laughable market share when it comes to webservers.
I’m talking specifics, not globally.
Nearly all of my daughters sites she visited in college were nix servers. The exception being one administration machine she used for her payroll access as a RA.
By “nix” do you actually mean Nix, or do you mean “*nix” as any Unix derivative?
Guess.
Guess what most IBM big irons are running nowadays?
RHEL, since they bought red hat.
z/OS
For closed and proprietary stuff, and things that still run on FORTRAN and COBOL, yes. But about anything running a web frontend, it’s Linux (RHEL).
Unix
Well, AIX (one of IBMs UNIX variants) is old, and, AFAIK more or less legacy stuff. The other is RHEL, which is s Linux.
The world runs on legacy
AIX (Unix), Windows, Powervm?
Dust? (but really its not Linux or windows anyway)