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Time to Try a Linux Desktop?

Posted by michael on from the first-hit-is-free dept.

bigbadwlf writes "EWeek has an opinion column, posted yesterday titled, Isn't Now the Time to Try a Linux Desktop? Quote: 'The crackers currently have the whip hand over Windows, and Microsoft's assertion that Internet Explorer is now part of the operating system shows its flawed reasoning. Worried sick about the latest rash of Internet Explorer security problems? I have the perfect solution for you, one that's even better than switching to Mozilla, Firefox or Opera. Switch operating systems: Go to Linux.'"

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  1. Re:Linux? by eurleif · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    Can you still run a Red Hat RPM you got in 1997?
    Yup.
    In addition, a unified API akin to .NET or Cocoa, instead of these 20 or so different APIs which require that I install all of them since everybody likes to code for different ones instead of coding to a standard.
    MFC, .NET, Win32... need I go on?