🚀 go-pugleaf

jimf@world.std.com (jim frost) wrote:
>I'm a big UNIX fan and have been for more than a decade.  There are
>probably no more than a handful of people reading this message who
>have more UNIX experience than I.  Regardless of how much I like it, I
>recognize that it's not a terribly good desktop system -- it's too
>complicated for what most people want to do, and software has remained
>either very expensive or quite primitive.  It is the workstation OS of
>choice not because it was what everyone wanted, but because there was
>nothing else available that had anywhere near the same
>price/performance.  Well, those days are over.
>

Have you looked into Linux???

Can't beat the price.

Probably has the best performance of any OS on the PC platform -- as always,
depending upon what you need to do.
(The "infinitely better performace/price" is a bit of an in joke, but...)

Software vendors are actually porting to it.  (Not bad for a "non-commercial.")

Widely available support -- frequently, free support.

Totally Open System.  You are not dependant upon a single source for OS support
or fixes.

Hardware supported is comparable to commercial OS -- you do have to be a bit more
carefull about this.  Linux works upon the hardware it's users have; which is all
common hardware.  The computer manufactures are not used to explicitly listing
their components, and you do need to know what is in your machine to optimise the
kernel.

-- 
Sphere.

Find a Linux Group for you: http://www.tiac.net/users/williams/lugnuts/

Buy Linux brand UNIX!