arstechnica.com — Linux Foundation CEO Jim Zemlin says that Linux adoption is advancing two to three times faster than that of other platforms and that it will be boosted as companies consolidate their technical infrastructure during this economic downturn. Similar views were expressed by an IDC analyst who has recently authored a report which suggests that Linux...
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md10Apr 10, 2009
I'd rather suffer in Microsoft's hell than in Linux's purported heaven of freedom.
twinnieApr 10, 2009
1. Fair enough Office, but OpenOffice is Windows as well.2. I wasn't talking about servers. If I was gonna host my own s**t I'd use Linux as well.
tmatyt95Apr 10, 2009
Well said jcmyers
iiiearsApr 11, 2009
Linux servers more flexible and secure because the source code is available.Desktop users Source code, Why? Please just make $Favorite install and work with a single click. Servers aren't Desktops.
8find3rApr 13, 2009
You have !COMPLETE! control over the OS! It doesn't have to be any more specific than that. It's like Lego. You can take all the parts and throw them away, and then put them all together the way "you" want. You just can't do that in Windows. In Windows you have no control over the "code" let along the kernel OOhope you understand ;)
cataklysmicApr 13, 2009
on servers running linux... the irony
battlenixApr 13, 2009
WTF isn't Mac the fastest growing platform? Oh wait growing from 0.5% to 1% is 100% Growth! That's why it's "fastest growing platform"If Linux people want to attract 'REAL' people to use it, make it easy to use and compatible with what people over the world using. So much for really "cool" features like promting password for sudoing and such.Learn why people prefer Windows/Mac. Not because it's free and open and so-much-wonderful GNU license.
factotum218Apr 18, 2009
Lay off the Doritos and the cans of Monster, use Slackware. Still nice n slim on both sides of the screen.Laff!
billga1nesApr 15, 2010
I don't think Linux or any other open source software is in the business of attracting normal users. It was made by people like developers who needed to scratch their itch, and people with similar itches improved upon the scratches. It's just that some itches happen to be what normal users also had, and they started using the scratches.The more scratches are available for normal people's itches, Linux desktop will gain ground. The question is, are there scratches readily available for itches that only exist in normal users? Since normal users can't create a scratch for their itch, and developers are not interested in developing scratches for itches they don't have, it's a catch 22.But, I think we have reached a point where enough scratches are available for most of the itches that normal people have, that it will only gain more momentum, not because Linux is pushing it, but because people freely choose it on their own, even in the face of juggernauts.