Top ten reasons

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TOP TEN REASONS TO LEARN AND USE LINUX

10. Over 1300 commands and still counting
9. "What you see is what you get" is a bad idea. We want a "you asked
for it, you got it" OS (from "Real Programmers Dont Use Pascal",
Datamation, July 1983)
8. Compilers and common applications come with the distro without having
to buy additional software
7. Having the source code for everything means you aren't tied into someone
elses proprietary products
6. If you don't like the GUI then change it! X-windows has no firm
look and feel specifications
5. Multi-user, multi-threaded...Always had it! Always will!
4. Solid, secure, well defined API to the operating system. applications
and OS are not tightly coupled so application bugs simply CANNOT
crash the system.
3. Scalable to single computers containing up to 128 CPUS, and commonly used
in high-performance clusters that perform better than the Cray XMP.
2. Code is code, and data is data. No such thing as email based trojan
horses.
1. Aren't you tired of paying your "Bills"?