Surprised to learn that there were windows based Supercomputers.
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Those were the basic entry level configurations needed to run Windows Vista with Aero effects.
Now the real question is what package manager are they using? apt or yum? Lol
they specifically built it to only use snaps
They are using pacman obviously :)
nah theyre using nixpkgs
Also, Gnome or KDE?
It's probably mostly cli
Yeah, but gterminal or konsole?
Maybe windows is not used in supercomputers often because unix and linux is more flexiable for the cpus they use(Power9,Sparc,etc)
Plus Linux doesn't limit you in the number of drives, whereas Windows limits you from A to Z. I read it here.
You can mount drives against folders in windows. So while D: is one drive, D:\Logs or D:\Cake can each be a different disk.
For people who haven’t installed Windows before, the default boot drive is G, and the default file system is C
So you only have 25 to work with (everything but G)
Ok that would make sense tbh
I’m confused on why they separate BSD from Unix. BSD is a Unix variant.
Unix is basically a brand name.
BSD had to be completely re-written to remove all Unix code, so it could be published under a free license.
It isn't Unix certified.
So it is Unix-derived, but not currently a Unix system (which is a completely meaningless term anyway).
To make it more specific I guess, what's the problem with that? It's like having a "people living on boats" and "people with no long term address". You could include the former in the latter, but then you are just conveying less information.
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Wow, that's kind of a lot more Linux than I was expecting, but it also makes sense. Pretty cool tbh.
Linux is just the unix flavor that replaced the others.
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