@black.rules

please tell them oooooo , that windows is just unrel;iable it can fu****k you up @ the right time freezes and crashes

i cant believe someone just asked that, nairaland, facebook, google, twitter etc runs on linux

Linux is very relevant if you are Telecoms Engineer, or you are considering a career in the industry.

my dear, your world-Nigeria may not have the relevance for linux. In the world where I live, from university to research institutes, to start-up companies, to big technology companies who develop, or implement or design systems, Linux is the answer.
You hardly find windows.
The truth is that if you want o understand technology u are using or developing, then forget windows. It mighty sound like an add but I give u an instance,
Did you know that the TCP/IP which allows u communicate on internet is a protocol (program) which u can tweak to get a different feel, which u can edit its mode of operation . Perhaps this sounds strange.

Please visit the Scandinavia, , home of Nokia, Ericsson, Skype, Volvo, Scania, Tandberg, etc etc etc AND MOST IMPORTANTLY the home of LINUX TORVALD, the founder of Linux. I will welcome u to my home , think about it

webdezzi:

i cant believe someone just asked that, nairaland, facebook, google, twitter etc runs on linux

OS Server Last changed IP address Netblock Owner
Linux nginx/1.0.9 26-Nov-2011 x.x.x.186 Oluwaseun Osewa


OS Server Last changed IP address Netblock Owner
F5 BIG-IP unknown 27-Nov-2011 x.x.x.11 Facebook, Inc


OS Server Last changed IP address Netblock Owner
Linux gws 27-Nov-2011 x.x.x.99 Google Inc.

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Stop demeaning Windows. If you are a programmer you should leave that issue out of it. Most would write packages for Windows than Linux based systems if that where you are headed. Tweaking is not the relevance of Linux which Windows can as well do with many packages which are compatible with it are abundantly available.

I personally, find it humorous when people jump into conclusion to say Windows is not as relevant as Linux. The reason why Linux based systems are more in use in the server side of things is that it is cheap and commands are readily issued to achieve some tasks. Whereas these are done in Windows with third party packages or packages created by Microsoft, which cost extra money.

Fedora core 16 here, Linux all the way. Though there are few winblows apps that you may not find an equivalent for in linux but i have never regretted dumping winblows, benefits of running linux on laptop desktop and especially as server is so much. The only computer in my domain running winblows is my wife's , women love flashy things.

all4naija:

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Stop demeaning Windows. If you are a programmer you should leave that issue out of it. Most would write packages for Windows than Linux based systems if that where you are headed. Tweaking is not the relevance of Linux which Windows can as well do with many packages which are compatible with it are abundantly available.

If personally, find if humorous when people jump into conclusion to say Windows is not as relevant as Linux. The reason why Linux based systems are more in use in the server side of things is that it is cheap and commands are readily issued to achieve some tasks. Whereas these are done in Windows with third party packages or packages created by Microsoft, which cost extra money.

I am sorry u are naive. u only see within what ur world covers. have u been in any R& in EU or the US, how relevant is Windows in those areas.

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That's where you are missing the point. Using few American corporations to judge the relevance of these software is as ridiculous as statement without proper balance. How relevant is Linux? That's the question! We know why it is widely used in server based systems, that is for some reasons, it is cheaper, simple manageability and cost effective - not because of the tweaking idea  you are alluding to here. In the personal computers Windows still rules and their server is also popular, though, not popularly use by many corporations as Linux.

@all4naija

You are right, currently windows still is the dominate in the PC market. That been said, it is gradually losing market to MACs and linux variants like ubuntu and mint . It's similar to the web browser war that started a few years ago when Internet explorer was the dominant browser but for the last couple of years is losing it's position to firefox and google chrome. Unix/Linux is dominate in the server world not because it is cheap but because it out-performs Windows as a server platform and it's open-source. People are seeing that linux can do it in the PC market as well and it's slowly getting there.