On 07/06/2011 4:49 AM, River Tarnell wrote:
Why Linux and not FreeBSD, or Solaris, or OpenServer, or MP-RAS, or ...? I've asked this many times in the past (usually when someone says "I want Linux") and never had a real answer that I can remember.[0]
Availability of expertise.
Just here at Ubisoft, for instance, there are about 25 Linux sysadmins (ranging from intermediate to guru-level). Of all of us, there are only five that have Solaris or *BSD experience, and only *two* who have both.
Whatever caused this originally, Linux ended up with a much bigger mindshare than the BSD did. You'll find more users and sysadmins with CentOS or Ubuntu experience than all other unices combined once we old farts start retiring.
-- Coren / Marc