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which sites are powered slackware?

I'm just curious about any major sites that are powered by slackware......

I think Yahoo and hotmail are powered by freebsd.Are any major players running on slack?

Hotmail is powered by windows server 2003 although you are right about yahoo.
Sorry don't know any site powered by slack.

Hotmail, for obvious reasons, runs MS Server 2003. Yahoo.com is unfingerpintable. Google runs some variation of linux, probably something they brewed up themselves. It's hard to tell what distro is in use.

I thought it was odd that Hotmail would be cooking on FreeBSD,it's just something I read though.

Slackware is such a fantastic distro.I really have not found anything as user freindly or as stable as this.FreeBSD is really great to but it does not run all the linux toys I like :(

I too like FreeBSD, but stick to Linux because I find it more suitable for the desktop. And I run my firewall on Linux just to keep things consistent. :)

I've run slackware and I'm not sure I'd say its the most user-friendly, but to each their own. I currently run gentoo, so I'm obviously not all about the point and click. :)

To get back on topic: Tweakers.net is one of the largest Dutch sites and used to run on Slackware servers. IIRC mplayerhq.hu also does. But there are many smaller deployments of Slackware. E.g. I know some schools and universities that use Slackware Linux in their infrastructure over here in the Netherlands. They just aren't too vocal about it :).

To make an overgeneralized statement: managers like Red Hat and Novell, techies like Slackware, Debian and *BSD.

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Originally posted by mortal
I thought it was odd that Hotmail would be cooking on FreeBSD,it's just something I read though.

Slackware is such a fantastic distro.I really have not found anything as user freindly or as stable as this.FreeBSD is really great to but it does not run all the linux toys I like :(

Well for the record, from:
http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/micr...IhateMS_2.html

Quote:

When Microsoft acquired the successful Hotmail free Email service, the system had roughly 10 million users, and the core systems that powered Hotmail all ran Unix. A few years later the number of Hotmail users exceeds 100 million, but in spite of Microsoft's claims about the power of Windows and their previous intentions to replace Hotmail's core systems with Windows servers, Hotmail's core systems still run Unix. This is discussed thoroughly in a leaked-out internal paper by Microsoft's Windows 2000 Server Product Group member David Brooks. He mentions the proverbial stability of the Unix kernel and the Apache web server, the system's transparency and combination of power and simplicity. Windows on the other hand is considered to be needlessly GUI-biased (Brooks writes: "Windows 2000 server products continue to be designed with the desktop in mind") and also complex, obscure and needlessly resource-hungry. (Brooks: "It's true that Windows requires a more powerful computer than Linux or FreeBSD [and treats] reboot as an expectation".)

And if you want to read more about MS:
http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS.html for the whole article

This web site can telll you what is running on a particular site ( although it wont show slackware ):
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph

It proves that yahoo does run freebsd, and yes at one point in time hotmail was run under FreeBSD. But that has changed since there web serving tecnology has improved since hotmail first came into existance.

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Originally posted by Dankles
This web site can telll you what is running on a particular site ( although it wont show slackware ):
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph

It proves that yahoo does run freebsd, and yes at one point in time hotmail was run under FreeBSD. But that has changed since there web serving tecnology has improved since hotmail first came into existance.

It's entirely possible that hotmail only runs Windows Server 2003 as a front end (webservers only) and the email and email databases are actually still sitting on backend *nix systems. Netcraft can only tell about the webserver... or even a reverse-proxy... I wonder if they might reverse-proxy just to hide their true OS. :)

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Originally posted by Matir
It's entirely possible that hotmail only runs Windows Server 2003 as a front end (webservers only) and the email and email databases are actually still sitting on backend *nix systems. Netcraft can only tell about the webserver... or even a reverse-proxy... I wonder if they might reverse-proxy just to hide their true OS. :)

This is true, in fact for all we know MS could have micosoft.com on a UNIX backend

Incidently there is a firefox extension called ShowIP which as well as putting the ip addy in the status bar, allows u on a click to show whois, netcraft and other info from any site your browsing.

https://addons.mozilla.org/extension...nfo.php?id=590

Very useful for this sort of thing ;)

Nice call, dive. Installing now...

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Originally posted by dive
Incidently there is a firefox extension called ShowIP which as well as putting the ip addy in the status bar, allows u on a click to show whois, netcraft and other info from any site your browsing.

https://addons.mozilla.org/extension...nfo.php?id=590

Very useful for this sort of thing ;)

I like this

Yep, great extension, though I think I need to add an nmap feature, if possible ;)

well i would hope slacware.com ran on slackware!