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Story: 64-bit Windows imminent

Posted by: Sum Yung Gai (anonymous) (Monday 14 March 2005, 4:47 PM)

Who cares? We have 64-bit GNU/Linux, not to mention 64-bit FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. For those who haven't tried out SuSE Linux 9.x Professional, you should; I find it very easy to use as a desktop OS. *VERY* easy. And yes, I came initially from a MS Windows background.

For servers, Windows shouldn't even be getting used. What about "user-friendliness", the MCSE's will ask? User-friendliness doesn't matter as much in a server, because end-users aren't sitting at the server console; properly trained sysadmins are. If they're not, then there's a much bigger problem, regardless of platform, that neither Windows, GNU/Linux, *BSD, OS X, or any other operating system can solve. I make sure to put knowledgeable people on my servers, regardless of what OS the server is running.