Thanks to Kelly
McNeill for this link.
“…the problem is, people don’t seem to realize this. They
expect one OS – to which they zealously cling – to do *.*… there
are far too many underrated operating systems that need to be
brought to the attention of the mainstream.”
“Recently, there’s been quite a lot of attention devoted to open
source and free operating systems such as Linux and various FreeBSD
derivatives. “Free” in this case does not refer to the price, it
refers to the freedom of the user modifying the operating
system.”
“Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, etc. are well suited to embedded
applications and server tasks. Particularly the Internet. Unices
were the original network operating systems, and no other OS to
date takes quite the same approach to networking, especially in the
way of TCP/IP and the Internet. This is why the vast majority of
web servers, and other systems serving various purposes are running
some kind of UNIX derivative.”