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> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf
> Of Andrew Wood
> Sent: 25 February 2012 23:21
> To: piclist@mit.edu
> Subject: Re: [OT] New server comming, Request For Comment
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> On 25/02/12 22:24, Joe Wronski wrote:
> > Logical reasoning of entrepreneurial sysadmins and authors who make
> > money supporting linux systems, I would guess.
> > Not that there's anything wrong with that.  I don't much like Microsoft
> > either, but if I needed a system that just works and I didn't need to
> > tinker with everything, I'd probably love them and Apple.
> > Joe W
> Theres a logical reason all the major webites on the net run on Linux
> servers (Google, Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon).
> People spout this crap about MS servers being easy to use and Linux
> being complex.
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> 1. Linux is no where near as complex as Windows under the hood. Id
> rather edit a Linux text config file than the Windows registry any day.
> Furthermore a command line interface stays the same pretty much, the
> Windows GUI moves things around from one release to the next.
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> 2. If you dont know how to delve under the hood when things go wrong
> (either on linux or windows) and have to have a point & click gui  then
> you shouldnt be left in charge of a mission critical server in the first
> place whatever os its running cos something WILL go wrong and you'll be
> screwed.

And what if the server is not in a "mission critical" application, but simp=
ly run as a hobby by someone with far more Microsoft knowledge than Unix/Li=
nux etc?  Why should they invest a large amount of their precious and limit=
ed time to learn a new operating system when they are happy with their old =
one?  It simply makes no sense in this situation.

Mike

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