201. Karan Vasudeva
January 6, 1999
Go home and relax people. We already won.
LLL III NNN UUU XXX.
I guess this message is really meaningless and adds nothing to the collective intellect banging around here. But I have really, nothing to say. I work with Linux everyday and its better than Solaris, OSF/1 or Irix (Sorry, those are the only ones I've seen). Windows NT I wouldn't piss on...

200. Joe Peden
January 6, 1999
joe@io.com
Pick the OS that provides:
1. Reliability
2. Lowest licensing costs
3. Longest hardware usefulness
In my humble opinion, only Linux gives all three.

199. Adarsh.V
January 6, 1999
vadarsh@hotmail.com
Any day Unix is the best . Windows-NT is one hell of a marketing gimmick . It hardly gives the flexibility, which one gets with UNIX. Not to mention the frequent crashes occuring on NT. Scalabilty in NT is very poor, and so is reliabality and backup. NT is a good choice only at the front end side where novice users like the GUI , but for sytems analyst and programers, Unix is their holy temple. When it comes to critical business process, Unix is preferred over NT. Finally I will like to sum up , NT is only good at the front end side, but when it comes to backend servers which actually run the critical jobs , Unix is the leader. No wonder Oracle has agreed to pay anyone (including Microsoft) 1 million Dollars if anyone could prove that Microsoft's Sql server is not 100 times slower than Oracle server. What has Meena Ganesh to say on this..? Linux

198. Amisha
January 6, 1999
amishams@yahoo.com
Windows NT

197. Padmanaban Ramalingam
January 6, 1999
Linux and Apache rules.
check out http://www.netcraft.com/Survey
Read the amusing fact that Hotmail system acquired by MicroSoft uses FreeBSD another free Unix implementation. And MS failed in their attempt to convert it to a NT based system.

 196. Aravind
January 6, 1999
arvsan@ibm.net
Apache is the world's most popular web server and guess which platform it runs best - FreeBSD / Linux. Linux is Unix. I have a Linux server that ran for so long that it actually wrapped around on the uptime command. That is over 18 months uptime.... Wish my NT server would stay up for a week !!! For free you can get a full fledged server with database / web server / mail / news etc.. which with the NT solution you will pay closer to 8000 dollars and which is more stable.

195. Jacob Kolding
January 6, 1999
platon@stoned.com
Linux of course!!! It will do the same as any other OS and do it better and more stable! The only problem is user friendliness but that's changing, Linux is becoming more and more GUI configurable all the time.

194. S.sHIvalingam
January 6, 1999
lingsiav@hotmail.com
Linux is my bet. As I feel it is free and and it runs on cheaply available Intel platform. Apart from the above, it is wonderful operating system.

193. Lokesh Jha
January 6, 1999
lokeshjha@hotmail.com
Linux of course. A'int everybody fed up of Bill be it Clinton or Gates

192. Abdul Shareef
January 6, 1999
shareef@hotmail.com
Linux. Its a mature OS now. Its free and most important is support, you get it easily, faster and cheaper than any other OS. Guys go for linux...For future,For Change... NetBSD / FreeBSD

191. John Hayward-Warburton
January 6, 1999
linux@billabong.demon.co.uk
Use Linux. You're in charge.

190. Nikhil
January 6, 1999
nj1008@yahoo.com
Linux!!! As in my experience Linux beats the hell out of NT. Anyday. GUI tools are not so imp for a server and so far all GUI tools are inadequate. no wonder NT sys admins are also taking to Perl.

189. Prasanna
I really laughed when I saw messages like "Unix, Of course". I guess, we need to base our decisions on facts, and not emotion. We need to evaluate the capabilities of Op Systems, the support, the openness (in other words, access to the related knowledge base) and the rate at which they are evolving. Price would definitely be a major factor when it comes to Indian markets. Competition is good, so it's not recommendable for all to choose a single OS. If we do that (and most of the people are heading there), it would result in monopoly. And remember that monopoly is ridiculously sluggish.

188. Bauduin Raphael
January 6, 1999
raph@innocent.com
Linux is the best. It runs on all platforms from Intel to alpha. It's open. It follows standards. It's free. It's reliable. You don't need especially big hardware to run it. What more do you want? Bugs, crashes, incompatibilities, dependance to a manufacturer? If that is what you want, choose NT....

187. Mads Dydensborg
January 6, 1999
madsdyd@challenge.dk
Interoperabillity, stability and managability (remote), security, software updates, feature set, conformance to standards : Linux.
The above + expensive hardware, superior IO & CPU performance, enterprise ready systems : Unix
None of the above, but : glossy bloated desktop; conformance to "Management-by-reading-magazines"; bad performance. More expensive PC hardware required (then Linux) : NT.
Is there even a choice?

186. Subhashis Roy
January 6, 1999
subhashis_roy@hotmail.com
Go for Linux. # Free or around $49.95 for a CD-ROM distribution
# Free online technical support, a big no in Windows NT server
# FTP server , not in windows NT
# Telnet server
# News Server
# Number of GUIs (window managers ) to choose from - 4 compared to 1 in case of NT
# X window server for running remote GUI-based applications and many more........

185. Mihir Wagle
January 6, 1999
wagle@cems.umn.edu
Linux!
Because
1. Price - Zero
2. Scalability - Not as good as Solaris but better than NT
3. Support is free unlike Microsoft - milking you for what you've got.
4. Security - patches are available faster than for Windows systems (However, FreeBSD, another free Unix, is thought to be more secure than Linux).
5. Due to availability of source code, customization is easier. This is only the humble opinion of a non-techie. I'm sure techies have better ideas.

184. Amos Shapira
January 6, 1999
amos_shapira@icomverse.com
From personal experience I run a small ISP in Israel. It used to be based on a single server running on a 100Mhz 486 PC with 16Mb RAM serving e-mail (SMTP/POP-3) and Web (Apache), with auxiliary services like RADIUS and DNS, all under Debian Linux. Since then it grew a bit (added a proxy server, and split the load on top of a couple of other servers, looking back I think that the current load could be easily sustained on a single, stronger machine). The old server worked so well that it wasn't until we turned it off that we actually were reminded how slim the hardware was. It served about 1000 users on 120 modems at that time. On the other hand - a couple of other ISP's we talked to asked our help in switching from their wizz-bang-top-of-the-line NT machines to Linux because their machines couldn't sustain rediculous loads like 30 modems. I hope I made my point.

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