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Stable enough for curious and intrepid home or laptop users. But in 2005 Linux was premature for the data center, just had a lot of momentum from fanatics. I us
by Maursault 5y ago
Stable enough for curious and intrepid home or laptop users. But in 2005 Linux was premature for the data center, just had a lot of momentum from fanatics. I used RedHat Linux servers in 2001 for production processing, but this was at a startup (which never quite made it, but also didn't quite die... purchased by another company. I believe still in existence, but with no compelling reason for existence today).
- edgyquant 5y agoYeah that may be the case, as I said it wouldn’t even work with my Ethernet card without tweaking and Wi-Fi was absolutely no happening
- Maursault 5y agoThis was a common experience. Amazing (to me) that today all of the most popular distros have accomplished this, collecting and including all the drivers for all (well, not all, most) of the myriad network interfaces used, so that tweaking for network access is now pretty much built-in to the install. Same is true for the many BSDs now. I had the same thing happen as you with Darwin (yae, I got it to install! But I can't do a thing with it). What I recall about linux in the 00's was that Microsoft would break some functionality in Windows environments, and linux would fix it within a few weeks. I saw that as the reason for linux's existence, subverting Microsoft control. I think it may be still true, but LAMP became a pretty good reason for linux, too.