Why You Should Try Linux

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334px-tux_svg Why You Should Try LinuxWe are taking a risk with this article of offending our die hard Windows Vista and Windows XP fans. But regardless we think there are enough open source movement advocates in our readership and visitors that on balance our user base will be receptive. If you are already a Linux fan, then we are preaching to the choir. If you are not, then we ask you to have an open mind about this operating system and listen to what we have to say. Hear us out! Dont assume that this operating system is for heavy duty geeks because it is not. We think its cool in fact.

What if I told you that you could eliminate hundreds of dollars worth of Mcrosoft licensing fees both for the operating system and also for the Microsoft Office Suite? The new distributions of the Linux from providers such as Redhat comes with an Office package as a standard option. In this era of tight corporate budgets and lean times, corporate managers and IT departments are looking to cut back where they can to help the bottom line and slashing software costs is definitely one way.

Furthermore what if we told you, we could offer you an operating system that rarely ever crashed and that was practically virus proof? In fact it is well known hackers dont normally design bugs for Linux platforms. What if I told you this secret operating system could run all of your heavy duty analytics in the C++ language, the R statistical package and the mySQL database for your most demanding computational and server applications? What if I told you that this same operating system can bring back to life that old computer in the attic that is too underpowered to do anything with todays modern Windows operating systems. This is because it is lightweight with lower memory and capacity requirements than recent Microsoft operating systems releases.
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