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For a number of use-cases Linux is technically and practically superior to Windows and OSX. For servers there is essentially no viable competition. Postgres by
by staunch 13y ago
For a number of use-cases Linux is technically and practically superior to Windows and OSX. For servers there is essentially no viable competition. Postgres by comparison has a hundred viable competitors and very few exclusive killer features. It's a free Oracle alternative in an age where people don't even want Oracle.
- moron4hire 13y agoYeah, but that was sort of my point of the hedge in my original comment. Linux wasn't always clearly superior. It took the dedication of early adopters to improve it so that we have a thing today that is great. I think Postgres could be that for relational databases, given time.
- staunch 13y agoI'd argue Linux was superior almost from the start. As of around maybe ~1996 it became a viable alternative to Solaris AND it was entirely free and open source.