Can Linux beat XP in homes yet or NOT?

[Srikanth Konjarla]

There are many points. The following are few.

1. Linux is "FREE".
2. Linux has much more hardware support than OS X (referring to the one 
that ships with Mac) since one can't even imagine to run OS X other than 
on Apple's own hardware and expect everything works. One can run Linux 
on both Dell and Apple's notebook but not OS X. You are tied up.
3. Power users do not need to pampered.
4. Linux also has eyecandy (Beryl, compiz etc).
5. You can use Linux as a "sandbox" if you are part of project for huge 
server deployment. To my knowledge, there are not many users that would 
opt for OS X for their enterprise server deployment. OS X is just a 
desktop class (Apple might claim otherwise, BSD Unix may be server class).

Srikanth

BRUCE STANLEY wrote:
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> 
> */Srikanth Konjarla <srikanth.konjarla at gmail.com>/* wrote:
> 
>     Interesting subject as always. To me, yes Linux beats XP/Vista etc.
>     Last
>     time i have run windowZe for business was NT4 (i go to customers) since
>     then i have started running Linux on laptop (started with RH7.0, no
>     dual
>     boot either).
> 
>     But, for many out there it may not beat XP because there is no vendor
>     stands behind "Linux" to support. Also, Linux has become very general
>     term and i guess these days we gotta be specific about a Linux
>     distribution (F7, Ubuntu, SuSE etc). If there is a vendor who is ready
>     to pre install Linux (any distro) and extend it to full supportability
>     while providing all the drivers (video, wireless specifically) then it
>     can beat any OS (in my opinion OS X also).
> 
>     The question, who is gonna do that.
> 
>     Srikanth
> 
> 
> Hum.. why do you think Linux beats  OS X  which is based on
> BSD Unix?
> 
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