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Linux Replacing Windows More Than Unix
LordNimon writes "Over the past couple years, we've been hearing several Linux migration stories, but they have been mostly migration from proprietary Unix systems rather than from Windows. Well, this story on News.com indicates otherwise: of the migrations, 24% were from Unix, but 31% were from Windows. Sounds promising."
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Does that mean the other 46% left the mac?
since Linux is looking more and more like Windows every day. I'm amazed at how much KDE tries to ape Windows rather than trying to adddress the problems of the Windows interface.
I fear that if Linux continues in this problem we may end the problem of being weighed down by a monopolistic regime but we will still not have bettered the PC computing environment.
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31% of what? The 3 retards you invited to answer your stupid poll?
Well, they are!!!
Is not flamebait!!
+1 Funny? WTF are you on?
Well, you usually hear this as an off-topic troll, but I'm willing to risk a few mod points to be a voice of sanity.
Linux really isn't that great compared to other Unices. It is the media darling, partly because it fits the "built in someone's garage" cliche. It really is an alternative to Windows, and not Unix systems.
Linux rarely gets used on big iron. The only time you'll hear about some fast set of machines is in something like a cluster, for non-mission-critical applications. Even IBM, the diehard supporters of Linux, will openly admits that it just can't compete with AIX.
My personal opinion as to why... It has always just been something cool to hack away at. Very little work has been done to get security and stability overall. As an example, take the filesystem, EXT2.
Anyone who has used Linux for more than a week has had an Ext2 filesystem get corrupted. While I realize that there are other filesystems now, and that example is out-dated, I haven't used Linux extensively for a while, so any examples I give will be outdated.
More than that there are consistency problems. So much work is going into adding new features as quickly as possible, that stability, consistency, and ease of use just goes out the window. Compiling a new kernel should be a simple process (and one that should be unessecary) but instead gives you tons of kernel modules that are unuseable. Not a show-stopper, just another little problem that will take more time.
Linux development just has the Windows' attitude... Not a Unix attitude. I can't speak for anyone else (although it statistically looks like I do) but I don't think Linux has a chance against stable, secure, consistent, high-performance systems. I just think of it as a geek toy... Like a Dreamcast.
Slashdot gets worse every day... Pipedot: News for nerds, without the corporate slant
Fine, take the rinky dink shit servers. Leave BSD to the big boys with the big farms. You talk photoshop and servers in the same breath... who the fuck runs photoshop on a server?
Suck my big red beastie dick, you linux fag.
Windows is not the problem and Linux isn't the answer. If Linux is so great then why do you have to recompile the kernel just to install a browser? I have been an MSCE for 2 years now
and I feel that I have much experience in this game. All one really needs to do is just install Zone Alarm Pro, the set-and-forget firewall. That's how I have advised my organization to solve our old Klez problems. Face the facts, as long as you're running Zone Alarm, you don't even need to check any logs but about every 6 months. No virii either.
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when recently IDC confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dead
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come on! linux IS unix. saying people are switching from windows to linux at the expense of unix is like saying people are switching from windows to irix at the expense of unix. or sun's unix at the expense of unix. linux is just a variety of unix!