Actually, Linux hasn't mastered the server market. Many big corporations won't touch Linux/Apache for the simple reason (that you and I know is invalid) that they can't get support for it. Something a bit more commercial, like Solaris and Netscape Enterprise Server, is the prefered choice.
Also, if you are going free, then *BSD is in many ways a better alternative, in terms of stability or security (OpenBSD). There was a study some time ago which confirmed this, based on server uptimes.. URL anyone?
Linux won't have a hope at the desktop market until it can completely hide all the "icky details" from J. Random User. As a desktop environment, Linux is at a level comparable to Windows 3.1.
However, there has to be some reason I use it, doesn't there? For many computing professionals, especially programmers, their computer is their sidearm, their other half. It is the place in which a vast portion of their mind has been incarnated into via the keyboard. As such, their workstation can become in many ways a reflection of them.
It is the freedom of control and freedom of choice that keeps programmers and the like using GNU/Linux. It's logical and makes sense in some way that is very hard to define (at least it is for me). Of course, in many ways, this can be applied to any Unix, but only GNU/Linux has taken the philosophy all the way to the desktop.
This is not going to attract the people who are using their computer just to do up their genealogy tree, email relatives interstate, type documents, and do up the monthy grocery budget. For them, life with their computer is a series of one night stands, each one not related to the other. They don't want to know what's going on inside the computer, they are only concerned with getting the job over and done with.
Hrmmm, its amazing how much procrastination you can come up with when exams are looming.;)
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This is already happens during our office LAN parties.
Actually, RMS is Chaotic-Good.
Can we call it Finux?
There are 15 questions.
Actually, Linux hasn't mastered the server market. Many big corporations won't touch Linux/Apache for the simple reason (that you and I know is invalid) that they can't get support for it. Something a bit more commercial, like Solaris and Netscape Enterprise Server, is the prefered choice.
.. URL anyone?
;)
Also, if you are going free, then *BSD is in many ways a better alternative, in terms of stability or security (OpenBSD). There was a study some time ago which confirmed this, based on server uptimes
Linux won't have a hope at the desktop market until it can completely hide all the "icky details" from J. Random User. As a desktop environment, Linux is at a level comparable to Windows 3.1.
However, there has to be some reason I use it, doesn't there? For many computing professionals, especially programmers, their computer is their sidearm, their other half. It is the place in which a vast portion of their mind has been incarnated into via the keyboard. As such, their workstation can become in many ways a reflection of them.
It is the freedom of control and freedom of choice that keeps programmers and the like using GNU/Linux. It's logical and makes sense in some way that is very hard to define (at least it is for me). Of course, in many ways, this can be applied to any Unix, but only GNU/Linux has taken the philosophy all the way to the desktop.
This is not going to attract the people who are using their computer just to do up their genealogy tree, email relatives interstate, type documents, and do up the monthy grocery budget. For them, life with their computer is a series of one night stands, each one not related to the other. They don't want to know what's going on inside the computer, they are only concerned with getting the job over and done with.
Hrmmm, its amazing how much procrastination you can come up with when exams are looming.
cheers,
jml