OS X Vs. Linux On The Desktop

saintlupus writes: "There's an interesting article about the recent web browsing stats of Linux by Charles Moore, a fairly well-known web journalist in the Mac community. He asks whether OS X is the deathblow to Linux in the desktop and scientific computing markets. He also touches on the perennial "I'll run it on my Athlon or not at all" mindset of current Lintel hardware owners. Definitely worth a read." The article that Charles uses as his jumping point is the recent stats on Linux on the desktop. That article cites .24%, but Charles article has some pieces on why that number could be wrong.

Comments

Re:Linux wins hands down

[ImaLamer]

Oh, and why the link to adequa__.org?

It has to be the biggest crap site on the net today. Not because I'm linux fanboy #1, but because its a forum for liars and idiots.

links to horrible stories:
[i won't link to... i hate them]
http://adequacy.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/12 /1 6/145311/35
http://adequacy.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/12 /1 8/202346/38
http://adequacy.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/12 /2 1/195051/13

Or this poll:
Aware of Open Source License Implications?
* Yes, I work at Microsoft
* Yes, I used to work at VA Linux Software
* No, I work at slashdot

Re:A little misleading?

[adamy]

And as we all know, 42 is the answer

Re:In defense of the article itself...

[ImaLamer]

So right!

My solution? Debian's apt-get package system with Mandrake's ease of use.

Apt-get seems to be the only good install system out there. RPM doesn't hold a candle. I've not used one RPM utility that worked as good as the apt-get tool.

But debian isn't got it all! If mandrake built their distro off of debian, we wouldn't need this discussion. But they would also need to do a lot more work... so...