It will be bad when it rains

Gregor

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This image is taped to the wall in every IT related college room

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Also on my shirt

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and my axe!

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A little precipitatux is ok, but when the sysadmins clump and precipitate one should prepare for events.

Of course Blue Skies are Desirable.

Gregor

And my sword

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Isn’t it mostly unix servers?

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No? Unix is not a thing anymore. There are some rare edgecases with some older systems still running a variant like AIX or HP-UX but that is below 1%.

80% of what we call "cloud" is Linux and ~60% of all Websites run Linux. The Rest is Windows and most half a percent BSD.

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I think most servers are running something like this: https://omnios.org/ only the virtual machines might run alpine Linux

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I could swear I once even saw it on some obscure webcomic site once. Ah well. Probably my imagination.

Possibly linux

It is not 1984

Possibly linux

I recently learned it is possible to run Sun Microsystems in Microsoft Azure

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Yeah probably. I tried to find source for it but no luck

The comic was posted quite a bit around in 2017 at earliest

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Hrm. I was actually trying to be sarcastic about not crediting the author; I could have sworn this was an xkcd comic. However, I'm now also having trouble finding a source, so I suppose I should apologize to OP for my sass.

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Most webservers run Ubuntu and it is the default OS for the overwhelming amount of cloud providers. Some run Debian though.
Most enterprise applications run Red Hat or CentOS.

I never heard of OmniOS. Quick search says it is a distant descendant of OpenSolaris.

Given how rare that was already used back in its time and how practically nullexistent the community is for it (compared to Linux) I can say with high confidence the users are limited to a few enthusiasts and hobbyists.

Alpine is a special case and is indeed quite useful on VMs or IoT devices. I used it successful as base for a taped-together home automation server on a repurposed android phone.

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Y tho? Library computers at my uni ran Solaris. It sucked.