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What OSes do Apple's servers run on?

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨silverneedle@lemmy.ca⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • bacon_pdp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Linux, just like Microsoft’s.

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    • slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Just like every other cloud.

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  • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    A lot of them genuinely ran Mac OS Server back when that was a thing. Probably some that still run macOS, but now most probably just run Linux.

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    • uenticx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I ran a cluster of XServes back in the day. Probably some of the most well engineered hardware I had seen since Solaris Sparc’s in the 90’s. That said, the software stack didn’t perform well. Ever. Way too much overhead.

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    • silverneedle@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Now that is interesting. I know Windows Server exists for small enterprises, but I didn’t think MacOS Server would be something used for larger enterprises. Figured Apple would’ve used AIX yore.

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  • MurrayL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Which servers? (But the answer is almost certainly Linux.)

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  • madasi@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    14 years ago the answer was Oracle Linux, based on what I was told by my boss who left us to take a job at Apple

    not sure what flavor / distro they use nowadays but almost certainly Linux and almost certainly one with an Enterprise Support agreement.

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  • zbyte64@awful.systems ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    When I contracted with them we ran our computation loads on a Linux server and deployed our service to an internal Linux server. Only osx I touched was my laptop, and that was a work requirement they insisted on.

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    • silverneedle@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Only osx I touched was my laptop, and that was a work requirement they insisted on.

      You should have brought a hackintosh ;)

      All kidding aside, thank you for that insight. Is there any use to necessitating OSX, outside of nativism?

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      • zbyte64@awful.systems ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The OSX laptops was for security, you couldn’t connect to their VPN without it. It would also a way to monitor your usage

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  • KiwiTB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    BSD or Linux like everyone else’s.

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  • slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Likely a modified version of MacOS which is a modified version of BSD.

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