Comments on: everyone uses Linux

By: Luis P

Luis P — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 15:11:42 +0000

Dude! You forgot Tivo and all the major Telecommunications Operating Systems, mostly running Asterisk are on Linux. The infamous Linksys WRT54G, so popular it launched the company into the stratosphere, ran on Linux. It was so popular that when Cisco tried to kill the product, the eventually ended up creating the WRT54GL to satisfy it’s customers and partners.

When my MS Server crashes, it can countless phone calls, emails and chats, resulting in weeks to fix.

When my Linux server crashes (a rare event), it takes one phone call and about 15 minutes to fix.

The M stands for Marketing, and as my Microsoft Certified Trainer explained to me (and I quote), “Microsoft is a marketing company that just happens to sell software”.

By: AusMounty

AusMounty — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 22:11:58 +0000

I am an IT Consultant and while most of my clients are using MS based products, I myself, use Mandriva 2010.1 PWP as my platform of choice.

Some regard this distribution as entry level however I have found it extremely robust. I tend to use the PLF repositories simply because they are updated more frequently than the official ones, and given that the http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ makes it painless to install programs by incorporating the required dependencies as well. Agreed that this is similar to apt-get in it’s functionality but designed around the rpm framework.

I run at present a modest little Compaq Presario Celeron based laptop but I can still run the Oracle based Virtualbox and Windows XP Pro inside it.

I have been using this OS (the progression of releases) for over 10 years. Very happy with it.

By: Bart Simpson

Bart Simpson — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 08:58:26 +0000

Ummm… You might want to tell your Dad that in almost every one of his examples, I believe he is referring to Unix not Linux. The primary business model for Fortune 500 companies is the use IBM System I previously called the AS/400 or OS/400 Operating System – a Unix Operating System not Linux. Like the Apple OS, Linux is not commonly used amongst the Fortune 500 Set for Accounting, Inventory or any other day to day business transactions. This isn’t to say that various Linux installs are not in use by these companies for various purposes. But anything of any significance on a daily basis in a business environment is going to be a commercial Unix product or a Windows Server product. The only exception to this would be web hosting. Additionally, the Cisco IOS is its own operating system based upon the Unix Operating System – in the same manner as Linux was based upon the Unix Operating System – but the Cisco IOS is not Linux. It is its own proprietary operating system developed by Cisco.

By: SeismicMike

SeismicMike — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:09:21 +0000

You can cover 500 million people at a time with one word: Facebook

By: MSalltheway

MSalltheway — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 19:09:05 +0000

You’ll never get me to switch I paid $369 for windows $299 for office $75 every 6 months for virus scan. How could something that is FREE be as good as that and besides my NEW windows 7 has almost all those graphics that you people have. And everyone knows Mac is based on BSD which is free so it must be just as bad.

By: Without Realising It, Everybody Depends on Linux

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Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:57:03 +0000

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By: fullmetalgerbil

fullmetalgerbil — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:06:53 +0000

Ah, the shadowy penguin cabal secretly overtaking the transnationals. Love it.

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By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:25:32 +0000

Hah, Linux crappy as a desktop OS? I’ve been using Linux for the last five years exclusively for a desktop OS, and it’s more advanced than Windows – then AND now. XGL kicks Vista’s sorry ass to the curb and then some.
My entire family uses Linux as their desktop OS. My girlfriend uses Linux as her desktop OS, and recently wiped her WindowsXP dualboot to reclaim the diskspace it was (ab)using. A friend recently asked me to install Linux on her laptop, as she recently had to wipe 750 virus’ off her laptop and doesn’t want to have to go through that again. Not to mention she is a police detective, and she wants her drive encrypted with a RELIABLE encryption scheme. Something that LUKS can provide, not Vista’s sorry excuse for encryption that is just waiting to be cracked.
I’m sorry, but anyone who says that Linux isn’t ready for the desktop hasn’t been paying attention since at least last millenium.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:50:13 +0000

Dennis: When was the last time you tried a distribution of Linux aimed for a desktop computer? I think it’s decidedly not crappy, otherwise there wouldn’t be such steam behind distributions like Ubuntu, which makes it so easy, pretty, and user-friendly to use Linux on a desktop system.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 05:04:58 +0000

Did you mention that linux for a desktop computer is crappy? Don’t get me wrong i like linux and all its mainly used for SERVERS since there are no viruses or works possible to write for linux.

By: Everyone Uses Linux at Epsilon’s Blog

Everyone Uses Linux at Epsilon’s Blog — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 23:36:07 +0000

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By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:48:20 +0000

I have recently switched to Ubuntu and love it. I stumbled upon this page and am glad I did.

By: Aeropunkie

Aeropunkie — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 20:59:23 +0000

I use Centos, Redhat, Suse, Pfsense.