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Originally posted by Undertoad
Y'know what, it won't matter in a few years; Linux will take the place of all the proprietary Unixes. It's happened at IBM, it's happening right now at Sun, and HP won't be able to stem the tide.
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IBM and SUN sell/produce small workstations and small servers with Linux. Neither of them are selling or planning to sell Linux servers that would cut into their big iron business. Linux is nowhere near having any of the features or scalability that Solaris, AIX or any of the other big IBM systems provide. If the last two years of Linux development are any indication, Linux won't have those features within the next few years, either' besides, IBM and Solaris make *ludicrous* amounts of money from selling and supporting their proprietary OS.
Don't get me wrong - Linux has its place, and that place ends with roughly 4 processors and 4 gigs of RAM on a system that doesn't need to have vital hardware swapped out while it's running a several-thousand-gigabyte database accessed by thousands of people every second.
On a personal note, I'm partial to FreeBSD for *FAST*, medium-sized servers, and the obvious OpenBSD choice for small secure systems. Windows2k makes for a nice desktop system as well, although this is more of a 'it's good enough' issue for me.
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PS: My choice for worst OS would probably be an unpatched original Windows 95 (guaranteed crash after 45 days due to timer overflow, IIRC?), WindowsME due to general design choices, and WindowsXP due to its 'we control what you do, you are not allowed to do this, mortal fool!' approach.