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USA Today says "Linux waddles from obscurity"

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the and-when-usa-today-gives-you-props-you've-made-it dept.

JCallery writes "The Money section of Monday's USA Today carried a feature article entitled "Linux waddles from obscurity to the big time Momentum builds as upstart operating system proves it can compute". It carries a discussion of time and monetary savings in business, basic Sun and Microsoft arguments against Linux, growing popularity with Wall Street, Hollywood, and government organizations, and the credibility of Linux due to alliances with other industry companies."

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  1. Cost of Servers... by TibbonZero · · Score: 3, Flamebait

    So it replaced 32 computer servers, based on the time-tested Unix operating systems, at an average cost of $50,000 each, with 40 Linux servers, at $3,000 a pop.

    Why in the world did each server cost them anything? They already had 32 servers, and I am sure Linux would have ran on them, so why didn't they save the 96,000 and just use existing hardware..

    In addition, they make it sound like "Unix Hardware" is more expernsive than "Linux Hardware", which while Linux works on just about anything, I don't see why they didn't use 3,000 dollar each machines for Unix in the first place. I don't see a 47,000 difference, unless they were stupid and just scrapped important stuff like memory, RAID, good mobos, redundant Power supplies, etc...

    The Unix servers took 17 hours to calculate how much cash the bank needed in reserve to offset its investment risk. The Linux servers made the same calculation in 11 minutes

    I don't think that if they had ran the same software on the unix servers, with the same hardware, that they would have had a speed increase really. Perhaps it was that they upgraded to new servers for the Linux, and used 8 year old Unix servers? That would make a good speed difference. I am glad that Toms hardware doesn't measure that way....
    ie. "Well, Linux certainly beats Windows 95, we put Windows 95 on an old 386sx, and Linux on a spanking new Dell server, and found that Linux must be the faster of the two..." Retards...

    Oh, an yea, I like linux, but this article is backwards.

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    Tibbon
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  2. No thanks by WildBeast · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    happy BSD user here

  3. Re:Windows is the only option by Hrothgar+The+Great · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    cd /

    find -name app_to_uninstall -print /usr/bin/app_to_uninstall

    rm -r /usr/bin

    telnet cse.unl.edu
    bash: telnet: command not found

    man telnet
    bash: man: command not found

    Good thing newbies won't be taking your advice, eh?