On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 12:18:48 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

For those running desktops and not servers, I suspect Linux has appeal
on a number of fronts, but...

I think Win XP Pro offers a lot more, in terms of working well with the
widest variety of professionally supported applications, and the latest
appealing hardware. I don't much like MS application software, but the
OS seems fine to me. As soon as I booted up my new home-assembled
computer, it recognized EVERYTHING. When I installed LINUX on my backup
machine, I had to go looking for drivers, and I didn't find any at that
time for several devices.



Exactly. I run Windows 2000 on my home server, FreeBSD on my web
server and XP on the desktop. The users of BSD flavors just want
things to work as best as possible.

I support Windows 2000 and 2003 servers at client sites. However if
they want a web server on site, I usually manage to talk them into
FreeBSD/Apache. IIS is the most hacked program on the planet.
No sense ask ting for trouble.

There are a couple of projects designed to ease into a unix desktop
environment:
http://www.pcbsd.org/
http://www.desktopbsd.net/

Have not had time (or desire) to try them out at this point.

Take care...

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Q