John Marr wrote:
>
> Greetings all:
>
> I know this is a little off the topic, but I am giving a 5 to 7 minute
> speech next week on the advantages of linux over windows, and the faults
> that windows has. Does anyone have any info or know of any web sites where
> I can locate some good, strong information or numbers so that I can impress
> my point that linux is by far a more superior OS.
>
> John
Linux Advocacy mini-HOWTO
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Advocacy.html
--PERFORMANCE and COST ISSUSES:--
The Hirch Unix-vs-NT Paper
http://www.unix-vs-nt.org/kirch/
Cnet news: Unix trounces Windows NT in testing
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-335947.html
--OPEN and CLOSED SOURCE ISSUSES:--
The GNU Manifesto (RMS)
http://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html
(Go down the section called "Why All Computer Users Will Benefit"
The Risks of Closed Source Computing (Alan Cox)
http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/AlanCox/AlanCox1.html
The Halloween Documents (Microsoft)
http://www.opensource.org/halloween/
--Number of Linux Users Worldwide:--
The Linux Counter
http://counter.li.org/
I would of liked to find the article on percent of software bugs in open
source and closed source, but couldn't find it anywhere. Also I don't
know if this exist, but some up time stats on Linux boxes vs
Windows95/98/NT would be intersting to see...
Also there is a ton of article out there for commerical support for
Linux, Corel, Netscape, Oracle, etc, etc...
If you can find the IEEE web site they may have more information on the
benifits of Open source standards.
If you need more info to work with, go to http://www.slashdot.org and
click on the Penguin Icon or even the Bill Gates Borg Icon.
Jack
