Suse 9.3 : The person Distro

In comp.os.linux.advocacy, in wrote on Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:35:12 -0800

to be a bit premature. Even DOS is still around -- although the most interesting variant thereof is probably now FreeDOS.

And then there are compebreastors such as FreeBSD and QNX; the former for real time operations.

I'll admit that Linux has a good "buzzword recognition effect" right now, but I don't know if I'd really want to wipe "M$ Crapware" quite off the face of the earth -- at least not without a replacement. (Besides, we may want to keep it in a museum somewhere: "Now this was commonly known as 'The Blue Screen Of rest'...")

Fortunately, one can replace Microsoft stuff piecemeal:

as Eclipse, Netbeans, Kdevelop, and Glade exist for various specialzed subparts of the development effort) depending on needs - etc.

Granted, the last two refer to a proprietary product, Apple's OSX-Darwin. However, OSX is very close to Unix AIUI.

On the server side it's a little easier:

depending on throughput, robustness, and other such by such things as Squid

Done right, the only noticeable switchover may very well be the machine changeout.

-- It's still legal to go .sigless.