On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Steve Ellenoff <[email protected]> wrote: > Maybe I was just not lucky, but my experiences with Ubuntu were > pretty bad ( this was in 2008 ).
Yes, it was. I started using Linux in 1998 and switched over most of our systems in 2002 - 2004. There were days I was ready to switch back. But there are days I'm ready to throw our Vista machines out the window, too! I have had to learn (or un-learn) a lot, but I feel my systems are running better, more reliably and robustly. We have 9 Linux boxes in house, 4 windows box, a Mac and four Linux boxes deployed elsewhere. Clients are split 50/50 between our legacy Fox business and new LAMP businesses. Most of them run Windows on their desktops ( we don't provide desktop support). > PS - I still hope that Linux will be a huge success someday, but > unless I've got lots of time to waste or I get new hardware, I'm not > touching it again any time soon. Linux is a huge success now. It runs most of the Apache instances, which in turn runs most of the internet. It runs Google. It runs Twitter. It runs Amazon. Linux on the desktop has never been the main emphasis of the many FOSS efforts going on. However, a lot of people have a lot of success with it. I'm sorry your experience didn't turn out that way. > FWIW - It works great in a virtual machine, and that's where I ended > up doing a lot of the development for that project on. Heh. That's how I run Windows these days. > I'll put on my fire retardant clothing now for all the Linux lover > flames that are coming! :) Computers are a pita. All of them. Linux is just a smidge better for some things, OS X for others. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
