On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 12:17:44AM +0100, Wolfgang Jährling wrote:
The biggest reason for GNU/Linux being widely used is good marketing by GNU/Linux distributors (which I don't consider to be a bad thing).
I and all I know uses Linux over any other operating system, including Hurd, for technical reasons, not because it has a cooler name (and I don't know about that) or it's fashion...
It's for being good that it is being adopted by the industry and business.
After all, Microsoft has better marketing than all Linux companies put together, and still it hasn't been able to stop Linux's growth.
Regards, Luciano Rocha