Mark Breen
mark.breen at gmail.com
Thu Oct 7 10:38:12 CDT 2004
Hello Arthur, Thanks for that, I did have the perception that Linux is used for a range of embedded type systems, as you mention. Now that you have mentioned it, I guess I did also now that Linux, well more Apache, was dominant worldwide, I had always presumed that it was down to cost. I never had any idea whether Linux / Apache is better or worse than the NT Platform and IIS. Regardless of whether I like it or not, I still find it facinating. I bet MS are gobsmacked at how it even exists, it should not made any sense? Mark On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 09:49:07 -0400, Arthur Fuller <artful at rogers.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > My favourite distro is Mandrake. I'm on version 10 right now. You may > have noticed that many of the vendors now have both a free and a > commercial distro. In Mandrake's case, you get a bunch of commercial > applications with the at-cost version that are not included in the free > version. In some cases the at-cost versions also include drivers for > various hardware. > > A friend of mine taught me a new trick when I installed Mandrake 10. I > was used to creating 3 partititions but he said to just format the > entire disk as one Linux partition rather than trying to allocate a > certain amount of space to each of the three partititions. I tried it > and it works nicely. > > As to your question of where Linux shines as well as WXP + Office etc., > there are two areas -- on servers and in licensing costs. Linux servers > running Apache are far and away the dominant web servers worldwide. On > the desktop, office-type applications are a good place to compare, but > so are dedicated boxes. A lot of people are running Linux at work > without even knowing it -- i.e. people working at cash registers in > supermarkets and so on. Linux is widely used in this kind of hardware > because it's cheap and once you've got it set up right, almost > indestructible. When was the last time you rebooted your windows > machine? Linux machines typically go years without a reboot. > > HTH, > Arthur > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >