Google RUNS ON LINUX!

[imdeemvp]

Hey guys,

I just want to share some news with you....i was reading today in the Los Angeles Times Newspaper in the Business section that GOOGLE the biggest search engine RUNS all its servers under LINUX!


:D

[crackers]

Hate to tell you this, amigo - but that's old news. In fact, there was a lot of speculation that SCO (insert appropriate expletives here) was going to be after them, but they surprised just about everyone and took on Daimler/Chrysler and AutoZone instead.

[imdeemvp]

according to newspaper it was not known to anyone what they had for server....hopefully MSN will switch to linux servers....:D

[Ug]

I've known that for years.

And why the hell have you posted this in "Suggestions & Feedback"? Moved.

[Jman]

Oh yeah, Google runs a cluster of thousands of standard PCs running a custom filesystem and serving tens of millions of seaches daily on Linux. It's a lot cheaper than Windows!

And they have spiffy Linux search (http://www.google.com/linux).

Yay for Google! :)

[Ug]

I've never really got on well with the google linux search. Its never given me quite what i wanted.

[foolish]

Yep, old news to me, then again, I know everything.

[logan5]

Yea there was a lot of talk about them when SCO was looking to sue someone.

But look at what they started with

http://web.archive.org/web/19990209043945/google.stanford.edu/googlehardware.html

[imdeemvp]

nice set up.....well it looks kind of messy...:D

[Ug]

Originally posted by logan5
Yea there was a lot of talk about them when SCO was looking to sue someone.

But look at what they started with

http://web.archive.org/web/19990209043945/google.stanford.edu/googlehardware.html That was on Slashdot only a few weeks ago...

[Drenon]

Now we just have to get those Google stats up :) - suprised we're haven't taken or got near Mac yet :confused: - blame those pesky Win-modems - 100'000's possibly millions worldwide playing in dual-boots etc etc but having trouble getting online re the Win-modems.

[foolish]

People should now that winmodems are not modems. They are tools of evil and nothing more.

[Ug]

That was the only thing which prevented me from corssing over earlier. I got fed up and went out and brought a proper serial modem. :D

I'm amazed it still works though, considering i've nearly severed the cable to the serial port by accident...

[David]

Heh, curiously enough that's what made me try fedora. I found rpms and a user friendly howto for fc1 on how to install the driver for my speedtch modem. Otherwise I probably wouldn't have bothered with redhat at all.

Unfortunately most broadband companies ship usb modems only supported under windows and mac. Hopefully, the likes of lindows will encourage the development of 3rd party drivers for common win modems like mine. Maybe oneday the manufactures themselves will start to support linux.

[Drenon]

That was the only thing which prevented me from corssing over earlier. I got fed up and went out and brought a proper serial modem.

Thats's exactly what I found aswell - I'd be multibooting happily except for the soft-modem issue with my distros - I'd often get the drivers, load the modules connect up with kppp (for example) and then find that the pppd daemon would mysteriously keep on dying or alternately have very little data throughput - all solved by paying 30 quid for an external serial modem from Ebuyer :)

[crackers]

Originally posted by David
Unfortunately most broadband companies ship usb modems only supported under windows and mac.

I've always insisted on a proper RJ-45 connection, myself. But I always do get a kick out of the installer when he tries to install the freakin' Windows CD: I have a special user set up with XPde (http://www.xpde.com/) running just for them...

(Yes, I am an evil bastard? Why do you ask?)