definately about money.. though that certainly doesn't hurt.. Its about: 1. freedom of choice.. The right to steer your own destiny as it were. 2. Security.. The list of major flaws in windows past and present is so long that it would be easier to tell you what isn't broken in some way.. since linux is open source, anyone that wants to, can go and find/fix bugs... with windows you have to wait for M$ to get off their butts and fix it.. and sometimes that takes to long.. the damage is done before they shut the gate. 3. knowledge.. No-one really knows just what windows does behind the scenes.. it is a closed source compiled bunch of code.. we can make guess's, we can reverse engineer some stuff. but there is vast amounts of stuff we just don't know. 4. Competition, right now, with the exception of Macs, microsoft has no competition on the desktop... thats never a good thing. 5. Stability and productivity.. our windows server needs to be restarted once every week or two.. nearly all our linux box's have uptimes over 50 days and most are closer to 100, only kernel updates really cause a reboot. 6. more for less.. I have gotten a huge amount of server work done on ridiculously underpowered machines.. machines that win2000 server would not even load on, let alone run services with any degree of usefulness.
I could go on.. but thats enough for most people to swap... it is easy to use, just takes some getting used to.. as did windows when you first tried it. rgds Franki -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Zariyan Zephyr Sent: Sunday, 30 March 2003 10:46 PM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: [newbie] Why do you choose Linux ? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 As a Linux newbie, I don't really understand why people in Europe and North America has chosen Linux for daily use. I think people in Europe and North America can afford Microsoft Windows and application softwares under Windows. It isn't about money, is it ?. ZZ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+hwMNJNWEiI6aGI4RAi4jAJ9/k3JiSHTkxSU6mOgAH0Wfc1WICgCeM1q/ 96KVzkO01TRZm43oVewOhY4= =GXxk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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