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What is Linux?

• Linux is not Microsoft.
• It is free (under the terms of the GNU Public License)
• It is a full UNIX clone, POSIX-compliant.

Why Linux?

• First of all, it's free.
• You can find drivers for almost all hardware for PCs ever made.
• There are lots of (commercial) applications running on it.
• It can run SCO and other UNIX/i386 binaries!!
• It is very stable [except for the hacker versions].
• You can find support all over the NET.
• You have all the sources for it. Sometimes they are very necessary.
• You can run almost all your DOS binaries.
• Windows applications work completely with WABI (it's commercial) and partially with WINE.

Why not Linux?

• Has no "commercial support" :)
• It is "an operating system for students and hackers" :) :)
• It is not Microsoft, hence it's not "serious".
• It's a little bit hard to use by an unexperienced user [non-programmer].
• It doesn't run Windows. It doesn't run Windows 95.
  [It seems that under the latest version of DOSEmu it runs Windows 3.1]

More info about Linux can be found at http://www.linux.org

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