I've found that, when Linux people become frustrated by their darling going mainstream, they will probably make a shift, but I've yet to see this be a shift from Linux to some other OS. Once you've really had a taste of Linux, little else compares.
Instead, those who switched over to RedHat, which seems to be the mainstream distro of choice, will later migrate to one of the other, less 'visible' distributions. Some do this for technical reasons, such as moving to Mandrake for the pentium optimizations, or to Debian for the tighter quality and security control. Others do it for sake of being different.
Another avenue of which I personally am guilty, is playing with Linux on different architectures. I currently am running Linux on my AMD K62 and an old 486, a sparc IPC, a borrowed ultrasparc, a Mac Performa (PPC), trying hard to get it working on my Vax and my two HP Apollos, and priming up for an install next weekend on my Mac Quadra 660AV (an m68040 box). Nothing gives a dedicated geek that feeling of individuality like the look on the faces of people who see a big pile of seemingly unrelated computer "junk" all working together seamlessly =)
There's so much going on with Linux, ports to different architectures, different distros to try out and compare, and new development always on the horizon, that no geek should feel compelled to switch, just to have something different to do.
I'll chip in $5 plus postage and handling. Please tell me I'm not the only one. (Hehe... somebody's USPS mail box is going to be feeling the slashdot effect)
Then you haven't been paying very close attention. I chalk this one up to MS getting a taste of its own. My quandary is, I can't decide who's the more despicable in this case, so I'll just kick back and watch with glee as two of my least favorite companies make better the case for my favorite OS.
I read this page a few hours ago today, and one of the most interesting passages said that, although MS was blaming "router problems" for the outage, that all tests (presumably by ZDNet) of the router showed it to be and to have been perfectly functional. (I'm paraphrasing, can't recall the exact wording but i'm NOT embellishing the meaning of the words... that's what it said.) THIS TEXT IS NO LONGER ON THE ARTICLE.
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Impressive.
I've found that, when Linux people become frustrated by their darling going mainstream, they will probably make a shift, but I've yet to see this be a shift from Linux to some other OS. Once you've really had a taste of Linux, little else compares.
Instead, those who switched over to RedHat, which seems to be the mainstream distro of choice, will later migrate to one of the other, less 'visible' distributions. Some do this for technical reasons, such as moving to Mandrake for the pentium optimizations, or to Debian for the tighter quality and security control. Others do it for sake of being different.
Another avenue of which I personally am guilty, is playing with Linux on different architectures. I currently am running Linux on my AMD K62 and an old 486, a sparc IPC, a borrowed ultrasparc, a Mac Performa (PPC), trying hard to get it working on my Vax and my two HP Apollos, and priming up for an install next weekend on my Mac Quadra 660AV (an m68040 box). Nothing gives a dedicated geek that feeling of individuality like the look on the faces of people who see a big pile of seemingly unrelated computer "junk" all working together seamlessly =)
There's so much going on with Linux, ports to different architectures, different distros to try out and compare, and new development always on the horizon, that no geek should feel compelled to switch, just to have something different to do.
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I'll chip in $5 plus postage and handling. Please tell me I'm not the only one. (Hehe... somebody's USPS mail box is going to be feeling the slashdot effect)
Then you haven't been paying very close attention. I chalk this one up to MS getting a taste of its own. My quandary is, I can't decide who's the more despicable in this case, so I'll just kick back and watch with glee as two of my least favorite companies make better the case for my favorite OS.
I read this page a few hours ago today, and one of the most interesting passages said that, although MS was blaming "router problems" for the outage, that all tests (presumably by ZDNet) of the router showed it to be and to have been perfectly functional. (I'm paraphrasing, can't recall the exact wording but i'm NOT embellishing the meaning of the words... that's what it said.) THIS TEXT IS NO LONGER ON THE ARTICLE.
Let the speculations begin...