On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 11:20:23PM +0000, Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 12:17:44AM +0100, Wolfgang J?hrling 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.
But Linux hasn't stopped microsoft either. And if I look at Linux and the Hurd, how they are technical and how the development goes, I think the Hurd has more potential than Linux. The Hurd is really stabilizing at the moment, I don't expect a stable 2.6/3.0 Linux in the next 2 years.
Jeroen Dekkers