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Linux is a hobbyist platform for script kiddies and wannabees. It is not a serious operating system.
That's how Ron Paul sees Iran. :)
However, in case you are serious, Linux runs in more Fortune 500 companies than Windows. CERN runs it for the LHC. JPL runs it. The army runs it. Argonne runs it. Sandia runs it.
None of those even consider running Windows for their real work. It is consigned to the desktop, where its damage can be contained.
Linux is a hobbyist platform for script kiddies and wannabees. It is not a serious operating system.Yeah. Sure.
Tell that to Google, Amazon, Netflix, The New York Stock Exchange, the London Stock Exchange (after a disastrous attempt to use Windows). You probably have Linux computers in your house (computer routers, Tivo and other DVRs, Televisions, etc.).
But if it makes you feel better to think that Linux is only a hobbyist platform, you go right ahead.
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Last June, I pulled out an old desktop and experimented with a number of these Linux distros -- Fedora, Ubuntu, Linux Mint. I finally decided upon PCLinuxOS.
I am no computer geek by any means (I don't even know how to write a script), and yet I have not turned on my XP machine for over seven weeks -- *except* for when I wanted to sync my IPOD or use Quicken.