Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter: Linux: A Genealogist’s Viewpoint

“For the past decade or so, the battle of the desktop computers
has focused on two combatants: Microsoft’s Windows and Apple’s
Macintosh operating systems. To be sure, the Windows operating
system has overpowered Macintosh on the desktop at about a
twenty-to-one ratio. However, a third contender has entered the
scene in recent years and has been gaining ground. By some
measurements, Linux has already surpassed Macintosh and is now the
second most popular operating system.

“Linux has been very successful in the server marketplace. In
fact, Linux is already more popular as a web server than is
Windows…”

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