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2013-03-25 , 05:44
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Originally Posted by Dave999 View Post
I wouldn't say linux/unix is better than windows or the other way around when it comes to servers. They a great for different stuff. But then again, who am I to tell you how it is. I just **** ***** ********.
I would. In practice, it is far more stable, maintained and simplified (far less convoluted to do any task) than Windows on a server. Even just getting Out-Of-Band (OOB) support through the serial port to be able to admin the server from the console through a modem connection (in case of a catastrophic network problem or in case the Internet portion of the OS itself has been ruined so badly that you needed console access to the BIOS/UEFI/etc and the OS through remote access is impossible in Windows but very easy in a Linux server based system. Not to mention the far, far better chance of avoiding filesystem corruption compared to Windows (ext4 vs NTFS is a HUUUUGE difference). That's just a small, but significant, bit of a large number of differences that make Linux a far better server. (TCO, flexibility, support, and on and on, etc.)
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