[clug] Why switch to Linux?

[freegazer]

On 11/11/06, Chris Smart <chris at kororaa.org> wrote:
>
> freegazer wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > the freedom from registry corruption type problems is definately one
> > side of it
> > but as I was saying in my earlier entry the simple fact is that in
> > almost all cases
> > a crash isn't fatal it usually just reduces your current environment
> > until (for example)
> > you restart a service, kill a process or restart X.
> > my "submission" earlier was as follows:
> >
> > perhaps a better slant for this would be something that emphasis the
> > recoverable nature of the OS/Distro's
> > while alluding to the stability. An example would be:
> >
> > Due to its very nature Linux provides a much more stable platform as in
> > the much less frequent case
> > of an application ether misbehaving or crashing the Operating System
> > itself rarely fails completely. This
> > results in your computer normally remaining active and usable. Often
> > these situations can be resolved
> >  quite quickly using the tools available with the Operating System
> > itself (rather than purchased in addition
> > to the Operating System itself). Also due to the way Linux works you
> > normally find messages that
> > don't normally require years of training to either find or decipher that
> > tell you what went wrong.
> Thanks a bunch! I'll work that into the site somehow, and also grabbed a
> few more apps from your other list too.
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
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