Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> But no, that's kind of the point.  People use Linux professionally not so 
> much because it's particularly good, but because it's licensed free, which 
> is what you like when you have either 500,000 servers or you have a profit 
> margin in the single-digit dollars.

  But nowadays eg. Solaris is free too, and should be quite robust (as it has
a long history precisely in server environments). Also the different BSD
variants (but especially NetBSD, if I have understood correctly) are of
quite high quality (especially in terms of security), especially for server
environment.

  I'm not exactly sure why precisely Linux is so popular, given that most
software is not designed specifically for Linux, but basically everything
has been ported to other unix-style systems as well (especially the BSD
variants).

  Maybe it's because Linux has the most polished distributions which minimize
the amount of setupping and administrative work?

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                                                          - Warp

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