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by toofy 718 days ago
So much, I know a lot of these have already been said so forgive me if I repeat some that others have said,

- 80-90% of the web's servers (something like nginx 35%, Apache 30%, cloudflare 20% who I believe run Linux for a large chunk of their infrastructure, litespeed 10%)

- stock market. I've read a number of articles discussing how NYSE, Tokyo, and NASDAQ run their trades and servers on Linux.

- internet infrastructure: From Linux to ssl to VPN sooooo much of internet's infrastructure is open source. From the servers to the protocols to the stacks. I don't have hard numbers but I'd be comfortable guessing at least 3/4 of the net's infra is open source.

- Git

- Firefox

- Wikipedia

- Home Assistant

- OBS

- Linux

- VLC

- DaVinci Resolve is rising soooo fast for video editing, and for good reason. Once you move out of the consumer/hobbyist tier or beyond Premiere and more into pro-tier hardware Resolve is fucking incredible. It will be a couple of years before it displaces Avid's strangle hold on the film industry, but it's going to happen.

- Blender

encoders, while you may not notice it, a ton of the media we consume is coded with open source, from:

- AV1 of Netflix/Amazon/Youtube fame

- VP9

- x264

- x265

- Apple Lossless, etc...

- ffmpeg

- Android is built off AOSP.

- Wordpress

And obviously I'm missing thousands of used-in-production very "succesful" projects.

1 comments

DaVinci Resolve is great (I'm partial to all Adobe replacements; Resolve is indeed a great alternative to Premiere, and Pixelmator, Rebelle, Affinity, etc. are great replacements for Photoshop), but none of these are OSS.