“RING Microsoft and ask for an industrial-strength operating
system (OS), a suite of business applications and a web server and
you can expect a bill running to several hundred pounds.”
“What you get will, in the main, be sound, reasonably efficient
stuff. But how about its equivalent, based on an OS that, to some,
is better than Windows NT, and all for a mere £40 or so?”
“The catch: it’s Linux, the most hyped and the most promising
alternative OS around at the moment.”