I notice that in Netcraft’s latest report, sorted by OS, it is easy to see 21 of the top 36 hosters run GNU/Linux and only 6 run that other OS. That says a lot about the cost and reliability of the OS.
In my own small corner of the world, of about 40 PCs in regular use, about one-third run GNU/Linux and the rest XP. Since I started re-imaging, three of the XP imaged machine started doing the running-slow trick. The last straw for me was my own machine that I use mostly as a thin client but also to connect to a handy colour printer. I installed Debian GNU/Linux in about 15 minutes using a caching proxy server to speed things up. Downloads averaged 6 MB/s compared to our usual 100 KB/s from the WWW. The result feels so solid. I click and it responds instantly. CUPS will handle the colour printer for me as I work on the terminal server.
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