[CALUG] Linux choices

[Jason Dixon]

On Dec 19, 2007, at 10:33 AM, Eric Bassett wrote:

> See, here's the problem with Linux...  this argument could go on for  
> days over which distro is the best... which one offers what, and so  
> on and so forth.  My suggested distro?  Windows, it works  
> fantastic.  Complain all you want about it, but it works 99% of the  
> time right out of the box with an immense amount of hardware  
> support.  I've built and run many Linux distros and each one has its  
> quirks that take a good amount of time to hammer out especially if  
> there are hardware gripes.  There's an old saying...  Linux is only  
> free if your time has no value.  Sorry guys, I have better things to  
> do with my time.


Conversely, Windows is never free nor worth my time.  It shouldn't  
surprise me that someone at Tenable made this statement.  It almost  
sounds like something Marcus Ranum would say.  However, I suspect it  
has more to do with a general pattern by security experts to eat their  
own dog food ("if you can't fix it, make money trying to")

P.S.  I was meeting with a couple of very smart guys yesterday.  One  
of them was talking about "using Solaris, managing Linux".  I haven't  
heard a phrase quite so accurate in quite some time.

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Jason Dixon
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