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> Have you ever used Linux ? If you have you would not be asking me this question !
I'm not the one you posted originally - but I HAVE used Linux, so I thought I might be able to add something here.
> I can give you over a 100 reasons to choose Linux over say, NT,
> Solaris, HPUX, AIX, Netware.
In *very limited circumstances*, this may well be correct.
> We have all of these OSes except for Netware at work. But we prefer
> to
> use Linux. Becasue its faster (more than twice as fast as Solaris on > same
> machine, according to BYTE benchmark), more efficient, much more > stable
> (personal experience), much more secure (known security bugs get fixed
> on Linux first before on any other platform), better driver support, > > better
> and much more powerful software packaging system, easy and powerful
> administation and installation ....
Well, I've used HP-UX, SCO, UNIXWARE, AIX, Solaris AND LINUX, and I wouldn't agree with much in the above statement. :-)
> Now please give me one reason why you would NOT use Linux. If you > > have
> not used Linux yourself then you are not qualified to answer.
Well, I have used Linux a lot - and I think I can CALMLY comment:
6,7,8,9 I could go on forever...but what's the point. This just ends up being a pointless argument, just like Mac fanatics who tell me I should "use Apple because it isn't Microsoft".
Yes, I'm a big Linux fan, but I also see it's limitations. Try to work in the commercial world on mission-critical systems and you'll soon realise the restrictions of Linux. Linux is a great system, but please try to be aware of it's limitations as well as it's good points.
Steve Phelan. Received on Tue Mar 18 1997 - 00:00:00 CST