Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Linux Making Inroads, But Not At Windows' Expense

Posted by Hemos on from the looking-at-things-differently dept.

zaphod123 writes "According to this article, the stories about Amazon (and others) switching to Linux have been misrepresented. The Linux install has replaced a proprietary Unix system, not a Microsoft Windows product. This is still "A Good Thing" for Linux, but not the downfall of Microsoft that some have foreseen."

3 of 323 comments (clear)

  1. Winformant? by rw2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think I trust winformant to tell me about Linux about as much as I trust slashdot to tell me about Windows... :-)

  2. Re:Try it on grandma. by Locutus · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just redirect 25% of that fund set asside for virus repairs/admin and use it for training.

    Solves that problem.

    LoB

    --
    "Anyone who stands out in the middle of a road looks like roadkill to me." --Linus
  3. Re:From the thank-you-capt-obvious department.... by Mtgman · · Score: 2, Funny
    Solaris, their operating system, has few advantages over Linux, nowadays. Frankly, without adding the GNU tools, Solaris is virtually unusable! (And, who's gonna pay $10k for their compiler when GCC does the job?)


    Shhhhhhh! Quiet! All you're going to accomplish with crazy talk like that is to get RMS on a tirade about how it should be called GNU/Solaris.

    Steven
    --
    -- I have marked myself unwilling to moderate-- I don't have other accounts to artificially inflate the karma of