[Fwd: Re: Why do I use Linux?]

[George Toft]

I did not see my reply come back - my apologies if this is a duplicate.

-- 
George Toft, CISSP, MSIS
AGD,LLC
www.agdllc.com
623-203-1760

When was the last time you backed up your business data?
Excellent!  When did you verify that your backups actually worked?



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Why do I use Linux?
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 10:40:54 -0700
From: George Toft <george at georgetoft.com>
To: Main PLUG discussion list <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
References: <20051127224906.85453.qmail at web34113.mail.mud.yahoo.com> 
<438A3CBA.7010402 at stilyagin.com>

Darrin Chandler wrote:
> Josh Coffman wrote:
> 
>> http://counter.li.org/
>> was supposed to be a hyperlink in the sig.. added it
>> on it's own line. Anyway, i saw someone else's sig
>> have that so I went looking and decided I'd registered
>> my machines.
>>
>> Shin zen ni rei
>> -j
>> Registered Linux user number 403109
>>  http://counter.li.org/
>>  
>>
> Ah, that's what I suspected. I tried checking, but it seems your profile 
> is marked private.
> 
> I'm number 157356. Woo hoo! (this *is* like golf, right?)
> 

Golf scoring sounds good to me: 67389

I've been using Linux so long that I virtually cannot use Windows - it's
too hard - kinda like running hurdles in a straitjacket.  Good thing my
business partner is a Windows Wonk.

Why I use Linux - let me count the ways...

1. Linux is customizable so it will support my business needs and I
don't have to try to jam the square OS peg into the round business hole
(or the other way around).

2. Linux is good business.  At this point, our web site has three OSS
products and a some custom code (including a total rewrite of another
OSS package) to produce a service that we offer for free to our clients
that is simply not available in the commercial world for under $2,500.
Total effort to develop, test and deploy: 60 hours.  Licensing
costs/royalties to pay: $0.00.  Just looking at the labor cost to
produce this, we are about even compared to the square-peg/round-hole
solution that a commercial offering would have given us.

3. I'm running our business accounting on Linux.  Accounting software
cost - $0.00

4. The web site is Linux.  Using Linux for the web site allows me to
abstract the OS I use for maintaining it and running the business.  I
can sit down at my Linux workstation or use a Windows laptop and
develop/maintain to my heart's content.

5. Linux is modular, so I can swap out pieces I don't like with ones
that do what I want.

6. Same thing with OSS.  I just integrated three OSS packages (10 hours
effort) that could not have been done with proprietary software.

7. I use Linux because it just works.

Cheers,

George Toft, CISSP, MSIS
AGD,LLC
www.agdllc.com
623-203-1760

When was the last time you backed up your business data?
Excellent!  When did you verify that your backups actually worked?