[dba-Tech] The latest Debian

Hi Hans:

The comments from an insider. Nothing that everyone could not all ready see
but now a confirmation. At one point the developers, left, will all have to
move on, unless the whole upper management of Microsoft can be convinced to
move on.

MS may have to be virtually wiped out before it can grow again.

Jim 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Hans-Christian
Andersen
Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2013 2:52 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] The latest Debian

Fun fact: Debian, on its own (excluding Debian based OSs like Ubuntu), is
the most widely used operating system in the server market.

Here's another interested article with an admission from a Windows kernel
developer about why the Windows is slower and falling behind other operating
systems like Linux: http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=74

- Hans


On 2013-05-11, at 11:04 AM, "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> The latest Debian is here...Debian 7.
> 
> With this release, Google has removing its old OS and now is actively
> porting all it Cloud to Debian. Debian is now using the latest Linux
core(?)
> which allows it to run on most of the major hardware architectures, all 32
> and 64 bit Intel chips as well as on ARM, PowerPC, Itanium, IBM S/390 and
so
> on. 
> 
> Debian is not really a PC OS but a true server but it does come with a
nice
> little GUI (distro) called Xfce though most "real men and women" in the
> computer industry still prefer the command line interface. 
> 
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/08/debian_seven_review/
> 
> Of course you can still get all the reliability and functionality through
> the Ubuntu and Mint distros which do tend to use more of the leading edge
> (bleeding edge?) versions of Debian. Ubuntu, for example is really a full
> blown server with a pretty interface and if ever needed, this PC desktop
> could step up run the entire network, limited of course only by the
> hardware. (The latest Ubuntu version 13.04, has been described as very
fast
> but boring...if you are a support tech you need more boring.)
> 
> According to some developers Exchange mail server, at least version 2010
and
> less, can runs fine on Debian but the 2012 version still requires some
> tweaks. The new Samba server completely replaces Active-directory.
Finally,
> MS SQL 2012 runs and is fully compatible on Linux. 
> 
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh568451.aspx
> 
> It looks like there is now less and less reasons to not migrate your
servers
> to Linux and Debian in particular. So why would you change if you have
> already have a Windows Server system?
> 
> Answer: First, Linux runs up to three times as fast, can support almost a
> dozen times more clients than a similar configured MS server version
(using
> the same hardware) and takes only a fifth of the space. Second, the
> innovation on the Linux platforms are years ahead compared to MS (Example:
> Debian uses, by default, a disk OS, that is faster (reading and writing),
> with built in duplication and is self-healing but of course you can always
> install the ZFS disk OS if you are planning a thousand server network).
> Third, Linux (Debian) is rock solid reliable; no blue screens or software
> crashes. Fourth, security on Linux servers have been the absolute best.
> Fifth, and perhaps the least important, the initial product costs are
zero,
> but of course, tech support fees (your fees) are just the same.    
> 
> So why are you still installing Windows servers? ;-)
> 
> Jim
> 
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