What’s Your Distro?
Consider this a brief introduction to Linux. What exactly is Linux? Well, it’s the F/OSS (free/open source software) alternative to both Windows and Mac OS X. Free as in beer, open source as in the source code being available for all to inspect and modify, i.e., not proprietary (like the Colonel’s secret recipe). Why even consider Linux? Well, a couple of reasons: price, performance, and security. OK, three reasons (I didn’t expect a sort of Spanish Inquisition..). On the price front, both for the personal user and the businessperson, Linux cannot be beat. For the personal user, it’s absolutely free! And for the businessperson, it’s much lower-cost to use when deployed in an office setting than either Mac OS X or Windows XP or Vista.
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