Linux

[shanky887614]

a lot of networking, servers and computers that need a low resource os.

for example your android phones and low level goods like your internet routers all run linux.

your windows pc might hang once a week and crash every other month but linux systems rarely if ever crash and its not unheard of for systems to run for years without having to be reset/shutdown

 

[steptoe]

I have PC been running Ubuntu (Linux) on a RAID1for maybe 5 years (Canoeboy) now, and never been turned off or crashed, 

it just works.

 

[shanky887614]

See that the thing steps - yet you get these other folk saying they have windows running for xx years and have had linux crash ?

Maybe they are just "saying that" knowing noting about windows, who knows

All i know is all the windows i have seen have all had issues, everyone i know who has windows has issues

Just Linuxing......

thats the thing, im running windows for games etc but i know ive got a load of redundant registry entries causing issues along with other things causing errors.

it doesnt help windows is clossed source and they dont really test anything anymore before they push it out to the masses.

You can use it to get data off damaged hard drives that Windows can't.

You can use it to clone Windows hard drives quicker and more efficiently than you can under Windows.

IF, you have lost files or have a damaged Windows disk and you connect it to another Windows machine, Windows may well write to the disk & trash any chances you had of recovering the files.

Linux will not do that.

It's free, the applications for it are free.

It is more akin to the operating system used on the vast majority of systems that are not on users desktops.

I'm not sure of the actual %age, but I'm sure someone will know, but I am pretty sure that the majority of the "internet"/"world wide web" runs on Linux.

It is a way for PC users to learn workstation OS's such as Unix, as it is so similar.

It is a very good learning tool for teaching how OS's work, and how they interact with hardware.

a lot of banking runs on zos but they dont call it a server they call it a mainframe.

there unix based so a lot of the generic linux commands work on it so go figure

 

[OnOff]

Apparently TomToms run on a version of Linux. The 'effing things WON'T connect to a Linux pc though!