Hey all, I know no distro is perfect and you often hear comments in that vein but here's one where Linux clearly kicked Visa's butt and best yet not in the lab but real life.

I'm a photographer and preparing to create distributed backup sets of my 100,000+ image portfolio for safe keeping is proving more complex than in years past. Last one was under XP and used like 75 DVDs I figure to hit 150-200 DVDs this time.

Under Visa every program I used was crashing and unable finish even the basic index let alone preparation and sorting for the big burn session.

So long story short I had been experimenting with Linux as a replacement already anyway and on a system with 25% of the memory it was able to do it so far. In my experience if it makes it past the first day I'll probably make it. So Vista, Adobe, and other commercial projects really didn't cut it in fact after sever tries they failed to finish very simple tasks and crashed. I'm testing a program called imgSeek right now but it's gone through 750 GB of images so far.

I guess I have to sort of vote for performance you know?

I believe in redundancy so I'll keep Vista but I think I'll upgrade the Linux moreso as it seems to be making better general use of it.

Regards
Curt

Penguin Power to the rescue GNU/Linux 1 - Vista 0. I'm not a hater (well yes I am) I hope Vista stays redundant

On a side note, I hope you're using Archival grade DVD's for these backups for your images..