IMHO, any "Windows vs. Linux" figures seem rather spurious. Every non-Windows OS of significance these days is more-or-less *nix-like and well-designed software should be portable across them (with a little tweaking and some more investment by companies with a long-term vision). Where Windows is concerned, the words "basket", "eggs" and "single-sourcing" spring to mind. If comparative figures are to be thrown about, perhaps "Windows vs. everyone else" would be more realistic.
Debian + OpenBSD sounds like my ideal combination too.
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It doesn't take even that much. A single installation floppy and an adequately fast network connection is all you need to install OpenBSD on most hardware. Installing additional packages using pkg_add over FTP is very straightforward. If ISOs were available, downloading them wouldn't necessarily be the best use of bandwidth. Where connections are slow or expensive (or both) the installation sets are well worth buying; one disc set will allow you to install the OpenBSD base system on any number of machines and on a useful variety of platforms.
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IMHO, any "Windows vs. Linux" figures seem rather spurious. Every non-Windows OS of significance these days is more-or-less *nix-like and well-designed software should be portable across them (with a little tweaking and some more investment by companies with a long-term vision). Where Windows is concerned, the words "basket", "eggs" and "single-sourcing" spring to mind. If comparative figures are to be thrown about, perhaps "Windows vs. everyone else" would be more realistic.
Debian + OpenBSD sounds like my ideal combination too.
It doesn't take even that much. A single installation floppy and an adequately fast network connection is all you need to install OpenBSD on most hardware. Installing additional packages using pkg_add over FTP is very straightforward. If ISOs were available, downloading them wouldn't necessarily be the best use of bandwidth. Where connections are slow or expensive (or both) the installation sets are well worth buying; one disc set will allow you to install the OpenBSD base system on any number of machines and on a useful variety of platforms.