Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron"

[likwid]

You know why linux will never go anywhere?
People like you.
The high and mighty OMG MS SUX LOLOLOLOLOLOL group.
You give off a terrible image of yourselves. You sit there and freak out any time someone second guesses your OS. Everyone thinks you're a bunch of nerds in your mom's basement.

You're the worst kind of computer user.
You think your garbage packaging system doesn't smell, well guess what? THEY'RE ALL TERRIBLE.

None of you can agree on one packaging system to unify everything. Its the same stupid story year after year and its why you're all still divided.

And please, stop grouping linux with unix.
Its not the same, linux is loosely BASED on unix.
Much like osx is loosely BASED on the bsd kernel.

You're not using unix. You're not the pioneers. You're just the metoo's.

In reality the costs are the same to maintain linux servers as they are MS servers. How would I know? I've spent more time at the old Exodus hosting in Burlington than you've probably spent in the entire industry around people who actually pioneered whats important in the computing world on this coast.

Server level:

MS: upfront OS costs, support costs/average admin salary lower

Linux/BSD: free OS, average admins looking for more money for relatively closed market experience.

Desktop level:

MS/Apple: more user familiarity, much lower cost support solutions

Linux/BSD: learning curve to get users up on common tasks necessary, need to hire trainers for normal tasks, yet again, need for experienced admins at higher salaries.

All around costs:

MS/Apple: much more diverse driver and software support. ability to go directly to the vendor if assistance needed.

Linux/BSD: LOL drivers LOL vendor support (even ex-alias|wavefront will laugh in your face if you ask for support for their $24,000 software package Maya)