BSD family OS and Top 500?

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chuwy2012-01-16 14:40:34

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chuwy, 2012-01-16 14:40:34

The question is purely out of curiosity.
What technical (or commercial) features are responsible for the absence of FreeBSD-based computers in the Top 500 list? After all, it seems, at first glance, it is not inferior to Linux distributions in many respects. FreeBSD jail is a good virtualization platform, good SMP support, excellent fault tolerance, a more liberal license, and more.

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ishua, 2012-01-16
@ishua

You yourself answered, on many points it is not inferior, but what's the point? If it is not inferior, at the same time it loses, at least in terms of the number of specialists capable of supporting? Well, the license, who cares what kind of license is there? No one is going to force you to release your code under the GPL unless you start distributing your Linux for the supercomputer... and until then, GPL or BSD shouldn't bother anyone.

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bagyr, 2012-01-16
@bagyr

www.top500.org/overtime/list/38/osfam
There were at the beginning of the 2000s, then a sharp decline with the increase in the share of Linux. Around the same time, Linux 2.4 was released, apparently more workable in such environments.

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Alexey Sidorov, 2012-01-16
@Gortauer87

When Linux just started making its way into BSD, there was no SMP at all!