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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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[–] tate@lemmy.sdf.org 196 points 1 week ago (22 children)

Ah hahahaha!!!!

Windows! Some dumbass put Windows on a supercomputer!

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[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 51 points 1 week ago (4 children)
[–] superkret@feddit.org 97 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (12 children)

The Big Mac. 3rd fastest when it was built and also the cheapest, costing only $5.2 million.

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[–] Z3k3@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago (2 children)

As someone who worked on designing racks in the super computer space about 10 q5vyrs ago I had no clue windows and mac even tried to entered the space

[–] gerdesj@lemmy.ml 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

about 10 q5vyrs ago

Have you been distracted and typed a password/PSK in the wrong field 8)

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[–] superkret@feddit.org 25 points 1 week ago (11 children)

There was a time when a bunch of organisations made their own supercomputers by just clustering a lot of regular computers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_X_(supercomputer)

For Windows I couldn't find anything.
If you google "Windows supercomputer", you just get lots of results about Microsoft supercomputers, which of course all run on Linux.

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