Thread: might give Linux OS 2007 a go
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Old 02-03-2007, 19:34   #110
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Re: might give Linux OS 2007 a go
In some respects Linux in it's current form is a bit like Win 3.11, it worked, but god did you have to battle to get it to work(especially in respect of adding new hardware). Maybe in a few years Linux will mature(as Win 3.11) did, into a "pickup and use" OS, but at the moment it is nowhere near that point.

Zingle, your right IMHO in saying that Linux hasn't got a place in the mainstream yet, but you need to narrow that down a bit, you mean the Desktop Mainstream, I say this because(and I can't remember the precise percentage), over 80% of the websites on the 'net are served up by Apache running on Linux.

I do run Linux based systems myself, but not at the desktop level. ATM, i've got a IPCOP firewall/gateway runnning, and a FreeNAS box.
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