What presidential candidates are running on a Linux platform?

Let's talk about a campaign platform that really matters: the operating system that supports each presidential candidate's official Web site. Can you guess who runs on what? Let's take a look. (Cue the drum roll...)

• Running on Windows NT or Windows 98: Republicans Gary Bauer and George W. Bush, Democrat Al Gore, and Reform Party candidate Pat Buchanan. All serve pages with Microsoft IIS.
• Running on Solaris: Democrat Bill Bradley and Republicans Steve Forbes, Orrin Hatch an Alan Keyes. All but Forbes use an Apache Web server. Forbes uses Netscape-Enterprise.
• Running on BSD: Libertarian Harry Browne. Using Apache.
• Running on IRIX: Republican John McCain. Using Rapidsite.
• Finally (intensify that drum roll), running on Linux: Independent candidate Bob Smith and Reform Party candidate Donald Trump (arguably the poorest and richest guys in the race). Both using Apache.

While it shouldn't count, the domain squatter who owns johnmccain.com and patbuchanan.com runs Apache on Linux.

Our source for this trivia is Netcraft (http://www.netcraft.com/whats/). If you have time on your hands, it might be interesting to see if any of these guys have swapped servers since we took this survey.

— Doc Searls