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View Poll Results: What is the most suitable job for LINUX/Unix
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Server
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3ds workstation
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Business productively office teams
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Client box
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Creazy project and toy
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GAMES and multimedia
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None of the above !!
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05-08-2005, 12:19 PM
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What is the most suitable job for LINUX/Unix
What do you think linux is for what situation ?
server
3d workstation
business productively
client box
games
creazy project
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05-08-2005, 12:26 PM
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Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Los Angeles
Distribution: Ubuntu
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 server... |
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05-08-2005, 12:31 PM
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Location: Valby, Denmark / Citizen of the Web
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Office productivity. A Linux network is the bet way to roll out many PCs - the sysadmin keeps control, the employees keep the flexibility - and it scales nicely.
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05-08-2005, 12:36 PM
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Registered: Mar 2005
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Linux can do all those things very well, however, the numbers don't lie, Linux rules the server market...
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/20...er_survey.html
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05-08-2005, 12:42 PM
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I said none of the above, but maybe i should have said multimedia.
I noticed on http://linuxmovies.sourceforge.net/software/index.html
that film is very linuxy now: think scale-able, render-farm. |
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05-08-2005, 12:52 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Los Angeles
Distribution: Ubuntu
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a render farm falls under the server category, not multimedia... |
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05-08-2005, 02:09 PM
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Registered: Feb 2002
Location: Grenoble
Distribution: Debian
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Moved to General.
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05-08-2005, 03:13 PM
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Server is the answer I'd give, though I use it for multiple reasons.
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05-08-2005, 05:11 PM
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I am sorry to sound negative but if the poll had been "what are most Linux/Unix boxes used for?" I would have answered {{{servers}}} after a moments thought. I would probably have spent the next few hours beating myself up because I didn't really know the answer but I had answered. The question in this case is "What is the most suitable job for LINUX/Unix" --- I do not have a Windows box at my disposal here at home and have finally limited my workplace to 6 Windows 98 (SE!!!!!!  ) out of 30 Mandrake/Suse and Debian boxes. Linux has to do everything for me so it has to be suitable for everything. Sometimes I am forced to pull pieces of my own hair out while trying to find a Linux solution to a what would be a simple job in a Windows environment, but in the end I have a superior solution. I don't need high-end graphics or video yet so perhaps I don't have the "need" for the requirements of an OS that this poll demands.
Perhaps I should just go to bed.
typos edited one minute after posting.
Last edited by esteeven; 05-08-2005 at 05:12 PM.
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05-08-2005, 08:36 PM
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Registered: Feb 2004
Location: Canada
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I am a Network Admin and we use linux for both server and client and I must say it is nice to use it for server but for client I prefer windows. What we did to minimize overhead is set up a W2k3 box and enabled Terminal services and now all the unix dudes use that. *we need software only available in windows*
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