Bryant University standardizes on Linux 13373

(As an aside, I am completely unsurprised that you ignored the main point of my post, which is impressive considering it's the subject of the thread. But anyway...)

Nah, a desktop distribution is just fine. Ubuntu is pretty cool. A lotta people like SUSE, too. Both fully open-source. Seem to work well for quite a large number and variety of people. Haven't run into anything I can't do just as well as, if not better and more reliably than, on Windows.

But, let's imagine for a moment that your backhanded implication were correct, and desktop Linux were somehow impossible. Having open, standards-compliant servers benefits the Mac crowd, too. And I think even *you* would have a hard time saying that the Mac does not have a mature desktop OS that is not Windows...

Well, I don't *need* to sell it, of course. I can be my own support staff and so forth. Businesses and organizations can pay (and, it seems increasingly, are paying) for support, but either way the costs favor Linux in that regard.

-- Sincerely,

Ray Ingles (313) 227-2317

Steve Ballmer: It's still ludicrous that nobody's ever made a run at us by making UNIX a popular server platform on PCs. It's almost too late now. Bill Gates: It's too late. -- Newsweek interview, June 23rd, 1997