I know 100℅ of the world top 500 supercomputers use linux, and around 65℅ of world servers. I want more info like this to help me campaign towards GNU/Linux use. Thanks.
I believe Germany is working on that. Recently they have started to migrate 30K systems or so from windows to Linux.
Yes, Germany likes to spend money going back and forth between FOSS and Microsoft.
In 2003, Munich announced it would be moving some 14,000 PCs off Windows and to Linux. In 2013, the LiMux project finished, but high associated costs and user dissatisfaction resulted in Munich announcing in 2017 that it would spend the next three years reverting back to Windows.
Germany be like: let’s move to Linux in the hardest and most likely way to fail. You know, gotta find creative ways to fill your consulting “friends” pockets. :)
Afaik the stated reasons for moving back were pure BS, or at least blown out of proportion. It mainly came down to the people in charge being very “friendly” with M$. Munich got a new major, he publicly called software-freedom “idiological nonsense”, asked a consulting firm that partners with and sells M$ products to analyse the situation, and everyone was shocked when they recommended M$.
Afaik the stated reasons for moving back were pure BS, or at least blown out of proportion. It mainly came down to the people in charge being very “friendly” with M$
I know! Profits.
Brazil is trialing Linux right now too.
Lot of health systems,government office,universities(mostly), defence (mostly) use Linux in my nation (🇮🇳)
In brazil, in the city I live, computers in public schools have been using linux for as long as I remember until 2015 when I finished high school. They used a mix of ubuntu machines and a distro called Linux Educacional which was made in some brazilian university I can’t remember. They used KDE Plasma, one of the reasons I still prefer it to this day.
The US’s Department of Defense is one of Red Hat’s biggest customers. Other than that, the US government theoretically uses Linux quite extensively, going as far as making significant contributions such as SELinux. It was mentioned already, but academia uses Linux a lot, too. I saw lots of machines at SLAC running CentOS 7.
I believe in Greece, the military is using Mint.
It goes well with Lamb Kofta
Greeks don’t eat lamb kofta. They eat gyros (which is shaved pork meat, not lamb ground, which is middle-eastern).
According to…?
According to all the Greeks. Including myself.
You held a national poll, including yourself?
Please stop trolling. I’m Greek, I live in Greece, and that’s how things are. Greeks don’t eat lamb kofta or kebab, that’s a middle eastern thing only. Greeks eat shaved pork, or shaved chicken. No beef or lamb ground meat in their fast food. They might look similar, but they’re not. The West has this idea that Greeks eat kebab, because many Middle Eastern people have opened shops in Europe and US calling their shops “mediterranean” or even “Greek”, while not being so. I’ve lived for 25 years in Germany, UK and US, and especially in the US, the only “Greek” souvlaki shops I could find in California were actually not Greek, they were kebab houses. Authentic greek souvlaki/pitas I found only in NY, and in 1 shop in Utah all these years. None in California (they were real Greek restaurants, but not souvlaki/pita places – these are different, since they’re street food).
Dude calm down. Nobody cares that much, and I’m sure you don’t speak for every Greek person in the world.
To all the commenters here writing that Brazil is testing Linux. There was a recent post on Reddit which got linked on Lemmy. That (unknown ?) poster on Reddit wrote about a test on 800 computers for some part of Brazil, if all goes well, it’s for 22k computers. https://lemmy.ml/post/14397254 Now try to guess or imagine how many inhabitants the whole of Brazil has that use computers :)
Russian military stated in the news they use AstraOS, some another fork. All other government institutions are too used to MS Word\Excel and the population in these places are usually aged conformists, so it won’t change soon. Some schools experimented with Linux but for their budget it makes more sense to keep using outdated Windows PCs. With the whole culture built around formatting and reprinting, signing papers in closed formats that don’t render the same even in different versions of Office, the whole generation should die off for some change. One exclusion - cloud editing in cooperation in Google is popular, but that’s about it.
