10 Reasons Why You Should Adopt LINUX

Tech Zone ^ | 2005-08-20 | Hina Aman

[N3WBI3]

Use a live Linux CD to boot it and ftp the data off, or slap in another harddisk (just find a small one lying around) install Linux to that disk, mount the old one and bring the data over that way...

Or pay 17 bucks for an old copy of windows 95..

[SolarisRocks]

Because RAID1 doesn't save your from SW data corruption or house fires.

[SolarisRocks]

I am sure they do. Does it matter?

[SolarisRocks]

The odds of Sun going away / changing their mind is less than the odds of Redhat and/or Novell going bankrupt.

Solaris also have much better docs and support that RH or Novell.

[Michael Barnes]

Because RAID1 doesn't save your from SW data corruption or house fires.

Neither does a second disk purely for data if the SW used is gonna do the corrupting. Fire? Can the second disk pull the halon alarm?

;-)

[postaldave]

great thinking, i know about the second HD trick but i didn't know a live CD could pull off that stunt.

[softwarecreator]

Only if you are claiming that these "Giants" choose Linux, when in reality, these "giants" usually use a few Operating Systems.

[tortoise]

Uh... some of these claims are a little over the top, and in a few cases, patently false. Make universal assertions when one is just comparing Linux and Windows is pretty wrong.

[SolarisRocks]

No. You take the data on Tape or External drive offsite or just email it to your GMAIL account :)

[SolarisRocks]

I never made any claims in regard to Linux and its usage in the F500/large companies. One would think that my UID would speak for what server OS I like :)

[N3WBI3]

what great freedom, you want a program, make it yourself.

Linux is constantly evolving and growing. The GPL has kept it from forking (when Linus releases a new kernel all the vendors start from there). If Redhat went under or ticked me off I could go with Suse..

but if it takes an act of god to load one program it's hard to screw anything up.

Funny I installed NVU the other day by clicking a weblink on a home page and entering the root password for the system... Maybe you have low standards for what requires God direct Action..

if your not a target you are not likely to get hit. if 99% of the world used linux do really think there wouldn't be any virus programs? HA!!!!!! no that's a good one.

24% of the servers in the world Run Linux. Most Routers and gate ways people use to protect their home windows boxes are running Linux. Just keep telling yourself Engineering is secondary to size of market...

UNTIL YOU START UPDATING THE DRIVERS. that takes forever.

If you have bleeding edge hardware this is true, if you're running standard stuff from dell its a non factor. I have had one computer (out of the box) in 4 years not work right off the bat with Linux..

gum has alot of flexibility but if it isn't preload your screwed.

You can buy preloaded Linux boxes...

free upgrades : true, and you will need them.

As you would with any OS. But if you're running windows 2000 and you want anything beyond basic security hot-fixes you gotta bone up more money now..

only if you can speak klingon and the best help you can get is RTFD.

Look at some of the questions here that people ask they get quick accurate and polite answers. Thats true for 90% of the Linux users out there were happy to help n3wbs

i really like the open source going on in the windows world these days too.

Yea some of the stuff they have been doing is a nice marriage between open code and private ownership..

[tortoise]

Were there any justice in the world, Linux would be abandoned in favor of BSD.

Part of the problem with BSD is that it has not scaled as well as Linux over time, and it started out ahead. BSD is cleaner, no doubt about it, but BSD has had a lot of serious problems scaling to big hardware. The difference probably boils down to how the different projects were managed.

[N3WBI3]

I think withing most companies you'll find some Linux, after all 1/5 servers in the world is running Linux. Thats not as impressive as the 3/5 running windows but its still pretty damn good.

[softwarecreator]

Obvioulsy I didn't mean you specifically, I meant anyone who believes in that claim.  Sorry for the confusion.

[softwarecreator]

BTW .. Welcome to Free  Republic!!!

[N3WBI3]

Or at the very least a partitioned one... I cant count the number of shops I went into with only a C: drive on the servers! My gosh its like when people went from NT4 to 2K they took that fact that a 36Gig hard drive could all be on partition to mean it *should* all be one..

But to be fair Ive seen just as many shops that have Linux servers with only three (/boot, /, and a swap) which is about as bad..

[N3WBI3]

I thought we might enjoy an OSS thread without him tonight... Hell find it soon enough..

[SolarisRocks]

Thanks!

[softwarecreator]

I agree, it is impressive and that percentage will probably grow larger in the next few years ... but to claim it is the choice of giants, is kinda misleading because it sounds like they use Linux and nothing else, at least that is the way I interpreted it.

[Michael Barnes]

OOoookay. So why have a second drive?

My thing? Mirror it to eliminate down time (yeah, I'm a junky, need my 'puter). Plus, it's nice to break the mirror before you patch and not have to worry about restores if something goes awry. Just boot off the mirror.

(Note: I love my Suse, but I have had a few updates that have crapped my KDE (once) and my kernel (once: because I was not paying attention in my selection and *shakes head* let a kernel update run through -- I know, I know, what the hell was I thinking --ANSWER: I wasnt!))

I used to use the second drive scenario, but only on the windows side. And I do admit, I was playing too much with Windows and re-installing too much. A second "data" drive is useless unless used smartly. Like you say, backup or g-mail it (shudders at what google admins can see <--tinfoil hat?). Mirror's have many uses..