On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Mike Miller wrote: > On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Brian Hurt wrote: > > > Of course, I may be slightly cynical because the company I work at just > > lost a big sale because our embedded servers ran Linux and not Windows. > > It's an embedded server- what the eff do you care what OS it runs? It > > works, what's the problem? > > Good question. Did they give a reason for that preference? Don't we have > stats showing that Linux file servers are faster than Microsoft servers? > Isn't Linux more stable than Windows? It's also cheaper (license fees?), and requires fewer resources (CPU, memory). If you don't need hard real time gaurentees, it's a great embedded OS. Which is why we use it. Brian