Ubuntu continues to rule the cloud

Re:Ubuntu continues to rule the cloud by mikeash on Friday August 28, 2015 @11:32AM (#10135989)

45.2% of UNIX web servers are of an "unknown" variant? How can you detect "UNIX" but not be able to have any idea of what UNIX it is? I'm going to hazard a guess that you'd be able to get numbers of similar accuracy by inspecting /dev/random.

Edit: poking around the site a bit more, I notice that they count Darwin under UNIX but OS X is a separate top-level category alongside Windows and UNIX (albeit one with less than 0.1% share). WTF are they doing? This makes no sense.

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Re:Ubuntu continues to rule the cloud by realityking on Friday August 28, 2015 @04:13PM (#10137604)

Technically you could run a non-OS X Darwin. Maybe that's the explanation?

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Re:Ubuntu continues to rule the cloud by mikeash on Friday August 28, 2015 @04:27PM (#10137670)

Could be, but it still doesn't make sense. It's the same underlying stuff, so either they're both UNIX (what I'd vote for) or neither is.

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Re:Ubuntu continues to rule the cloud by X-Istence on Friday August 28, 2015 @12:38PM (#10136445)

I never said it made sense ;-)

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Re:Ubuntu continues to rule the cloud by mikeash on Friday August 28, 2015 @04:37PM (#10137710)

I didn't mean to implicate you in this. I just checked out the site and had to share how ridiculous it is.

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