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Re:The State of Machine Learning Frameworks by terranoct on Thursday October 10, 2019 @01:22PM (#21217047)
RHEL is popular for solutions like running a datacenter mostly because it has a nice enterprise support story. It's what the E in that acronym is for, after all. Ubuntu, meanwhile, is quite popular among us mere mortals who have to fix our own boxen.

Debian is popular for Docker images exactly because many of the people trying Docker were already familiar with Ubuntu. Those users quickly ended up wanting smaller images, making Debian an obvious thing to try out since Ubuntu is basically Debian with bells on.

Ubuntu fought a sea of distros and came out as what's very nearly an industry standard, if not an official one. The 90s were a fricking mess by comparison. Slackware on floppies.

(And now I need "Slackware on floppies" dubbed over the "Jesus wept" scene from Hellraiser.)

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Re:The State of Machine Learning Frameworks by jniedrauer on Thursday October 10, 2019 @01:39PM (#21217233)
> Ubuntu fought a sea of distros and came out as what's very nearly an industry standard, if not an official one.

I think you may be living in a bubble. I've been running devops for various shops for half a decade and I've only once used Ubuntu, because it was already being used by an acquisition.

I won't deny that Ubuntu is popular. It's certainly got the lions share of the desktop market. But there is no such consensus in the server market.

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Re:The State of Machine Learning Frameworks by Sammi on Friday October 11, 2019 @05:47AM (#21222826)
Come on guys. You're fighting anecdote with anecdote.

Here's some date I could dig up by a couple of minutes googling:

https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/os-linux/all/all https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_details/os-linux

Other sibling comments link to more.

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Re:The State of Machine Learning Frameworks by bananocurrency on Thursday October 10, 2019 @03:39PM (#21218397)
https://blog.digitalocean.com/where-do-droplets-form/ I don't think this feels like a bubble.
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Re:The State of Machine Learning Frameworks by jeffnappi on Thursday October 10, 2019 @04:53PM (#21219048)
But it was so much fun running Slackware servers and compiling our own minimal kernels

make menuconfig

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Re:The State of Machine Learning Frameworks by cerberusss on Friday October 11, 2019 @01:09AM (#21221709)
Goshdarn, I totally forgot about make menuconfig! Good memories.
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