[CALUG] Linux choices

[Chuck Fullerton]

All,

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Thanks!

Chuck Fullerton
 

-----Original Message-----
From: calug-bounces at unknownlamer.org [mailto:calug-bounces at unknownlamer.org]
On Behalf Of Jason Dixon
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 12:17 PM
To: Eric Bassett
Cc: calug at unknownlamer.org
Subject: Re: [CALUG] Linux choices

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.

---
Jason Dixon
DixonGroup Consulting
http://www.dixongroup.net



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