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Linux on the Tipping Point

Posted by Zonk on from the my-grandma-uses-darwin dept.

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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  1. What?!?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ok, i'll blow you after your finished blowing me....

  2. Re:What? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    With the M$ ads and that bullshit, I nearly didn't finish the article. I did and concluded that the author is a total idiot.
    as a result, Linux now dominates Web services on Intel-style computers like those Microsoft depends on.

    This guy doesn't know what he's talking about!

    If other things stayed the same, competitive forces would eventually raise the cost of Linux,

    What is this fool talking about?

    IBM has selected Linux over BSD as the operating system for this machine in both its desktop and server configurations.

    Power is one chip family and cell is another, there's no reason BSD couldn't be ported to cell. This man is a clueless poser.

  3. Re:Ironic by ucblockhead · · Score: 1, Troll

    It was? Gord I love adblock!

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  4. You wFail It?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Users. BSD/OS had At lunchtime

  5. Re:Ironic by ratsnapple+tea · · Score: 1, Troll

    How does it feel to be an annoying, predictable Slashbot?

  6. Re:May be Mac Mini instead by Steve+Cowan · · Score: 0, Troll

    Great theory, until the kid at the Future Shop tells the otherwise-computer-ignorant person "Macs suck".

    People fear the Mac. They don't buy into claims that it's any easier to use, they don't believe it doesn't get viruses, they fear that their existing hardware and software won't work, they don't understand why it doesn't contain a Pentium, and in the case of the Mac Mini, can't understand why you would buy anything but the fastest computer you can afford.

    Plus, Apple's going out of business, the Mac is the new betamax, it's a cheesy decorative toy so it can't be powerful, they won't be able to bring the files home from their Windows machines at work, and 1-button mice make baby Jesus cry. Macs are good for graphics and that's about it.