Some good reasons for using Linux (there are dozens) is that:
1) It doesn't even HAVE a "blue screen of death".
2) The best way to "cure" a monopoly is to support workable
alternatives to that monopoly
3) Using Unix brings "heavy iron" software to the desktop.
4) Although computers on the desktop are actually incredibly fast these
days, "code bloat" has kept them running like old XT's ... yielding
"hardly acceptable" performance instead of "wow!" performance. It
doesn't have to be that way. It just doesn't.
Bill
"Eugene C." wrote:
>
> Hello Everybody,
>
> There is one question, that I do not think we talked
> about it.
>
> On this list, we all know more or less well what is
> Linux and hopefully why we like it.
>
> The "Demo Day" is for people not familliar (yet) with
> Linux.
> They can work for a major company or be simple end
> users.
> They can have a good technological background, or none
> at all.
>
> To do a simple demo of one text editor / wordprocessor
> instead of ten of them is a sound decision.
>
> But what kind of answer should we provide to someone
> asking the following question :
>
> "Why should I switch to Linux ?".
>
> It seems obvious for all of us, but not yet for
> somebody that see Linux for the first time.
>
> At first it seem an easy one. At best a good demo
> would be the answer.
> What do you think ?
>
> ======
>
> QNX
>
> A simple demo of "QNX" is impressive and does not
> change anything on the hard drive.
>
> It can be downloaded from here :
>
> http://www.qnx.com/iat/index.html
>
> Let's continue the good work.
> Eugene
>
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