I agree ... after working with SUN, IBM AIX, AS/400, MS Windows and Novell
... it's all in the app and server setup ... a single bad app can make any
OS look like crap. Before anyone jumps on me ... I'm currently running IBM
RS/6000's with AIX, Windows 2000 servers, Windows NT 4.0 servers and one
FreeBSD server. They all have their place, I believe in the best tool for
the job ... not XXXX OS is the best for everything.
Agreed. We're an unholy mix of Win2k, WinXP, Slackware Linux, a dedicated Linux router box and a Cisco box, not to mention a number of proprietary wireless routers. Each does something fairly well. I myself am partial to *nix, but that's probably in part because my first real job was getting an old Tandy 6000 running Xenix up and running with old Cobol accounting software on a number of RS232 dumb terminals.
I'll say that on lower-end hardware, Linux is the OS to beat. We are using an old 233mhz Pentium MMX with 128mb of RAM as our Postfix/IMGate box and it handles hundreds of thousands of distributed email dictionary attacks a day. These were totally flaking out our 2.6ghz Pentium IV running Win2k and IMail. Different OSs have different strengths and weaknesses. Linux still has a ways to go in ease of administration, particularly for those not comfortable with a text editor.
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