Re: ot: linux

In article <1143827007.437045.266000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
zymurgy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...

Ian Northeast wrote:

To be fair Bruce, Solaris does have a few downsides for the home user:

Don't get me wrong, I like it and my home server runs Solaris (on a SPARC)
but I do this because we don't use Solaris at work and I want to keep my
hand in. For pure functionality I'd use Linux. Solaris is reliable, yes,
but so is Linux IME.

If I needed mission critical reliability i'd use VMS.

Spoken like a true believer brother Paul.

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