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Probably because it's based on a linux core. Edit: sorry, seems I was wrong :-)

• amichail 18y ago
  It's based on a unix variant. So was it popular in Silicon Valley before OS X? Of course, in today's web 2.0 world, the OS core is not so important: more people are building web apps rather than desktop apps.
  • allenbrunson 18y ago
    even more of a reason to use a unix-based os. apache, php, perl, tcp/ip, and in fact most internet technologies grew up on unix, and it's easiest to work with them there.
    • amichail 18y ago
      No need to worry about that with cloud computing though. For example, development for the Google App Engine works just fine under Windows.
      • allenbrunson 18y ago
        so that's it, huh? the only way to write web apps is with google app engine? i spend a lot of time writing server apps, some of which serve up data for web clients, all of which are ultimately deployed on linux/unix. the low-level apis available on a mac are pretty close to identical to what's available on linux, so it's easy for me to do development and testing on a mac. i don't know why i'm bothering. it's pretty clear you've already made up your mind, so why even ask anybody else.
• yan 18y ago
  It's not. Even if it was, it wouldn't be the reason people use it. (FreeBSD user-space utilities, with a FreeBSD/Mach hybrid kernel.)