Why Linux stands out amongst other OSes

Tech Republic ^ | 24 April 2019 | Jack Wallen

[Openurmind]

Let me find it.... Even Microsoft is currently making an effort to wrongfully brand it as their own in their upcoming OS projects.

To start with this webserver and almost every webserver in the world is running on Linux.

[ShadowAce]

You’ve been added. Welcome!

[Bob434]

I can’t play the windows games I like on VM’s - nor does photoshop work real well in them- so I’m forced to dual boot which is fine by me- I internet during the day, and game on windows os at night

I tried wine and still no luck- I don’t mind dual booting

[SanchoP]

With Linux your PC just decides to crash one day and you lose all your files.

Now that's an incredibly ignorant statement from someone who has zero knowledge about Linux.

[bankwalker]

To start with this webserver and almost every webserver in the world is running on Linux.

Do linux webservers run .net and serve up the sites written for .net? There are quite a few of them.

[Billthedrill]

Ahem. The problem isn’t the OS here, it’s the user not having an image-level backup before a major upgrade. Trusting the OS to recover this for you is leaning on a mighty thin reed. IMHO.

[Openurmind]

This is just a VERY MINIMAL list as of current.

https://www.comparebusinessproducts.com/fyi/50-places-linux-running-you-might-not-expect

[Openurmind]

From what it looks like... Yes.

[Openurmind]

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/membership/members/

[fireman15]

Now that’s an incredibly ignorant statement from someone who has zero knowledge about Linux.

It was a quote from a person who writes applications used on various Linux distributions... So he probably is speaking from some form of experience. ; )

[Redleg Duke]

Bump for future read.

[SanchoP]

You really need to put a disclaimer on articles that are all about the _untus and their feral forks.

Systemd is NOT Linux.

[SanchoP]

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[ShadowAce]

Ubuntu and it's relatives are not the only users of systemd.

Red Hat and Fedora also use it.

[zeugma]

With Linux your PC just decides to crash one day and you lose all your files.

Now that's an incredibly ignorant statement from someone who has zero knowledge about Linux.

Agreed. Restoring data under Linux is much easier than the same thing done under MS-windows, if for no other reason, because you don't have to mess with something as kludgy as the registry.

[SanchoP]

Yep,so does Debian and several others but at least they give you an "opt out" choice. This entire article is about systemd being "buggie".
The emperor has no clothes.

[atomic_dog]

As recently as 3 years ago I rented a rack at a data center and 31 servers (mostly Supermicro 1U) in it. 30 of them ran CentOS and one ran Windows 2012 Server (customer requirement).

Over thirty years I have used SunOS, Solaris, Irix, BSDI, Free BSD, Fedora and Centos. I built a successful business using BSDI that cost like $900 for a license in 1994. People seem have forgotten how much money they used to charge for a server capable OS back in the day. That’s why FreeBSD and Linux were initially so successful.

Now I have one server running Windows Server 2016 a couple of Hyper-V instances running on it and the rest of the stuff is on Amazon’s EC2. It is very cool what they have done there. You bring a machine up with a mouse click when you need it. No more 30 machines in a data center.

And I am very impressed with what M$ has managed to do with PowerShell ISE. They are very very close to being the equal of C shell and tcsh and in some ways is already superior to them.

That said, my desktop runs Windows 7 and my laptop runs Windows 10. I know *nix like the back of my hand and I wouldn’t dare try to run any of them on a desktop or a laptop for business.

[SanchoP]

I’m a 20 yr distro hopping addict and I have never lost a single file.(Parted is your friend.)

[Garth Tater]

"It was a quote from a person who writes applications used on various Linux distributions... So he probably is speaking from some form of experience."

Daniel Georgiev founded a company that is trying to sell a product that they want to run on an open source operating system. In other words, they want to profit from the work of others that donated their time and effort to create something which is free for everyone to use - unlike Daniel's program which costs $14.99 for every machine it runs on.

Daniel's problem is that his small company is unable to support the large number of linux distributions he wants his software to run on. If he had written his program as an open-source program he wouldn't have that problem as each linux distribution has a community of users which would have worked with him in finding and fixing any bugs during his program's development.

It's funny how trying to sell software for linux just doesn't work out well. Almost like Karma is a coder.

[ShadowAce]

It's funny how trying to sell software for linux just doesn't work out well. Almost like Karma is a coder.

I hate to break it to you, but there are tons of for-profit software written for Linux--some is written only for Linux.

Just because Daniel can't figure it out does not mean that it's a bad idea.