[PLUG] dumping unix for linux
Wil Cooley
wcooley at nakedape.cc
Fri Oct 13 15:53:24 UTC 2006
On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 20:27 -0700, Carla Schroder wrote:
> I'm looking at reasons to migrate from Unix to Linux. So far I've come up
> with:
>
> -cost
> -flexibility
> -better feature set
> -dependency-resolving installers like apt and yum
> -runs on lower-cost hardware
> -not moldy
>
> *bsd or OpenSolaris are also possibilities. I don't have any Unix experience,
> so I'd appreciate some wisdom from wizened I mean wise old Unix geeks.
"It's the applications, stupid!" -- More important to most people (end
users particularly), OSS applications are in demand and, with rare
exceptions, there is no better platform for OSS applications than a
Linux distribution.
Wil
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Wil Cooley <wcooley at nakedape.cc>
http://nakedape.cc
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