Going Open Source

Linux on the desktop, from a server user’s standpoint. The thoughts presented below are both obvious and thought provoking at the same time. Often the most profound statements come from those who are already accustomed to a new and up coming change…

At Creative Weblogging we have used Linux (that is Debian) for our server infrastructure from day one. We now use Debian as the OS for all application, web and database servers. It is simply powerful, stable and needs minimum maintenance.

A different story for me was the Desktop and especially my laptop with various proprietary drivers from Toshiba. However the re-installation cycles for Windows XP got shorter and shorter for me (down to 4 months) and I decided to give Debian a try there and I must say Linux has gotten ready for prime time.

I followed several Liux distributions in teh last 10 years - Suse, RedHat now Debian. None excited me so much but it seems the last years have brought enormous improvements. Gimp is now for simple users as myself a better Photoshop than the original. OpenOffice handles Microsoft Documents as well as MS itself. It sometimes looks like MS itself has ported Powerpoint, Excel and Word to Linux - so similar and easy to adapt to are these applications. Source: TJ’s Weblog

[tags]open source,windows xp,debian,redhat,gimp[/tags]