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Re:We won the battle for Linux, but we're losing the battle ... by hrktb on Thursday June 09, 2016 @02:33PM (#11871362)
Only speaking for myself, but I initally switched to OSX right from FreeBSD because of the similarity . At that point the PHP+MySQL stack was still faster on BSD (mainly because of yahoo I think) and the ports system much easier to use than rpms for instance.

Otherwise I only saw Solaris or commercial types of unix (like what came with IBM servers) in use in companies I directly worked with. I understand that linux was already rising pretty strong, but tried and true Unix/BSD systems were definitely seen as the more 'serious'/professional choices.

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Re:We won the battle for Linux, but we're losing the battle ... by bluedino on Thursday June 09, 2016 @04:51PM (#11872289)
>> At that point the PHP+MySQL stack was still faster on BSD

Which was interesting because then Linux became faster, and had things like better SMP support that didn't get improved in BSD to give it the performance edge until 2007 or so...

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