What is Linux to you?

[Andrew Bates]

Good point,  I mean on that dual althon server, I had tested different 
distributions just for fun.. of course Red Hat responded the slowest, 
suse next, slack after that and my own custom compile was the fastest by 
12%.

Yeah for prototyping :)

- Andrew

Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

>To me, the best thing about it is to be able to prototype a system without
>having to spend thousands in licensing costs.  Sure, most good MS houses
>have MSDN subscriptions, but those cost thousands themselves, and for a
>small or unofficial operation it's not practical to "borrow" licenses,
>sometimes from several different firms, in order to do a proof of concept.
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