I am compiling a list of why Linux is better then all the other OSs that are out there on the market. Wise ass and funny comment are accepted and sought for. With the least posible amount of strain on da brain for my Bday I came up with:
It is FREE
Don't Crash
No reboot nessicary
Not made by money hungry anal retentives



All additions are welcome!

Comes with tons of cool stuff.

last time I checked root had over 4400 commands on my laptop running RedHat 9.

[david@zeus david]$
Display all 3618 possibilities? (y or n)
[root@zeus root]#
Display all 4402 possibilities? (y or n)

And to think, that's only stuff in your PATH...

i must suck, i just did the same and only have 1272 possibilities.

ok i dont really suck, i only installed what i needed to run a server (no X, no printer stuff, no fluff basically).

to add to the list:

written by people who are security aware (for the most part)

You can run it without any flipping GUI
You can run any of dozens of GUIs
You can theme your GUI any of hundreds of ways
The command line tools are so freaking powerful as to be almost incomprehensible. And sometimes plain incomprehensible, unfortunately.
GPL vs. EULA(s). And the winner and still champeen - GPL!
The command line rocks.
It's stable.
It can run on 486s to 686s - a few megs to a few gigs - a few megs of ram to a few gigs... assuming anybody's got a few gigs of ram.
The command line rocks.
Tux is way cooler than any dumb window or butterfly.
You're *supposed* to understand the system. You're *supposed* to look into the config files and change them. You're *supposed* to be able to ask 'what's this file do?' and be able to find out.
The command line rocks.

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I'm not sure if this is power or bloat.

|--digiot@slackath Fri Aug 15 01:04:11
|--bash 2.05b ~/lab $
Display all 2666 possibilities? (y or n)

|--digiot@slackath Fri Aug 15 01:04:11
|--bash 2.05b ~/lab $ su -
Password:
root@slackath:~#
Display all 3130 possibilities? (y or n)

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-- Yeah, technically it can run on 386s, but I'm not sure you could get your standard-spec 386 to run any current distro. But what the hell - it can run 386s to 686s.