Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Hi,
I have been asked to give a talk at my local LUG with that
topic. The audience is fairly technical, and there is going to be a
companion talk "Why FreeBSD" later in the year.
I know why _I_ have decided to go with Linux, and Debian, but
I want to deliver a talk with from a broader perspective than that,
so I want to solicit opinions towards that.
I'll create a talk that shall be under the GPL, and shall be
submitted to the page at http://www.debian.org/events/talks.
I don't intend to spend much time on enumerating the
advantages of a UNBIX-like OS as opposed to Windows;
a) Security, b) flexibility, c) control of features, d) philosophy,
e) cost, f) sped, g) efficiency, h) reliability i) (not having the gui
as an integral part of the OS), j) choices when it comes to
application software, k) no viruses, l) openness and speed of
resolutions of flaws, m) clustering, n) multi-user OS, kinda
cover it.
However, I would indeed want to cover why one would want to
select Linux over the BSD's, and why one would want to select Debian
over the other distributions.
And of course, now, with 3 different OS's at my disposal, I can do pretty much anythingf(Hardware permitting)
And, there's an ulterior motive (isn't there always) - I'm not in the best of health, but am hoping to get back to work in the next few months. developing a degree of expertise with Linux will certainly help in that respect.
So why Debian - because I toyed with it on M68K - so I have a (albeit basic) reference point (ie - I could get it installed).
Hope this helps. All the best Steve