which sites are powered slackware?

gbonvehi · 09-11-2005, 02:54 PM

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Originally posted by Dankles
But that has changed since there web serving tecnology has improved since hotmail first came into existance.

Actually, hotmail was bought by Microsoft. I'm sure the change ocurred after changing owner

Edit: I did a quick search so now I don't have more doubts: http://archive.salon.com/tech/featur...ail/print.html

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Hotmail actually started out with substantial open-source roots. When Microsoft bought the service, Hotmail made heavy use of portions of the FreeBSD operating system, along with Solaris, a proprietary Unix system developed by Sun Microsystems. Three years later, Microsoft moved Hotmail to servers running Windows. Executives argued that Microsoft software would do a better job ...

Matir · 09-11-2005, 03:15 PM

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Executives argued that Microsoft software would do a better job...

... in helping them avoid Solaris licensing fees.

gargamel · 09-11-2005, 04:17 PM

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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.

Before Hotmail was adquired by Microsoft it was, in fact, running on FreeBSD. So what you read was once right, but no more.

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Originally posted by mortal
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

YES.

gargamel

Dankles · 09-12-2005, 07:30 AM

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Originally posted by edM
well i would hope slacware.com ran on slackware!

The site runs off of a Pentium 3 600 mHz with 512 megabytes of RAM. The machine runs the latest version of Slackware Linux and has a T1 connection to the Internet.
http://www.slackware.com/about/