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AWS Linux and the internal Facebook system were also based on Red Hat.
by nailer 4y ago
AWS Linux and the internal Facebook system were also based on Red Hat.
- thesuperbigfrog 4y agoBefore Amazon Linux, Amazon used RHEL 5 and RHEL 3 internally on both bare metal and with a customized Xen hypervisor to run virtual machines. RHEL has been the default enterprise Linux distro for many years with SUSE as a second choice. Before that, most enterprises that were not running Windows were running Solaris.
- midoridensha 4y agoOk, but still this doesn't indicate any real popularity: a small handful of decision-makers picked RedHat as their standard OS for probably tens to hundreds of thousands of users, plus a ton of servers.
- nailer 4y agoIt seems like Red Hat was popular with decision makers. Red Hat was by far the most popular Linux before Ubuntu which might have contributed.