• AeronMelon@lemmy.world
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    6 days 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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      5 days 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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      6 days 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 in the days of yore.

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    5 days 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.