Linux on the Tipping Point

Reader stormcoder wrote to mention an article on Enterprise Linux I.T. in which the author posits that even though Linux is built on a legend, the reality of Linux outstrips even the myth. From the article: "..the fact that Linux has traditionally been compared to Microsoft's Windows brand products and not the other Unix variants will most likely lead the general public to perceive all this as Linux sailing on to new horizons while Microsoft stalls out. This perceptual shift should totally reverse the previous mainstream view that Microsoft and Intel were somehow at the forefront of high technology computing -- thereby pushing Linux over the magic edge of a social tipping point."

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Re:You mean it will "just work"?

[arminw]

...IMHO, at $100 for OEM, Windows XP Home is a pretty good deal for the average home user and small business....

Why not pay $29.00 more and get a real, industrial strength OSX instead of a hobbled toy that gets infested wih malware within minutes of connecting to the Internet. Why get an OS for good money where you have to beg Mr. Gates for an activation code when you make a non-trivial hardware upgrade? The last reasonably decent OS made by MS was Windows 2000 professional and that too is overpriced compared to OSX. You used to have to pay a little extra for the Mac hardware, but since the mini came out that is no longer true either, especially if you already have a nice monitor for your Wintel box.