333. Gavin
January 7, 1999
gavin@garden.gen.nz
At home I run both NT and Linux using the same hardware, I find Linux faster and more reliable. In New Zealand, most ISP's use either Linux, or a another Unix variant (actually, I haven't heard of any ISP's that use NT extensively!). Linux has many advantages over Microsoft NT: (1) Linux is faster (2) Linux is more reliable (3) Linux is better geared up for the Internet (4) Linux is Open Source Software. Not to mention Linux is far cheaper than NT as there are no licence fees, and you are not forced to pay extra everytime a major release is produced (nor are you forced to upgrade Linux as often as you are with Microsoft products). Linux is spreading fast is because people who choose to use Linux, do so because it is a superior operating system, rather than because they make decisions based on extensive marketing campaigns. In short, companies who use Linux have several significant competitive advantages over those using Microsoft products.

332. Prabhu Ramachandran
January 7, 1999
prabhu@aero.iitm.ernet.in
LINUX! What else???

331. Shashank Parulekar
January 7, 1999
shashank.parulekar@technologist.com
I would opt for Linux first and then fall on to UNIX (preferably Solaris), Windows NT is the last option. This is purely based on my experience with all the 3 OSes. In fact I would never even go for Windows NT because of the mysterious ways in which it crashes.

330. Rajinder Lota
January 7, 1999
rjsing@hotmail.com
Unix is the best choice.

329. John Stracke
January 7, 1999
francis@netscape.com
About the assertion that commercial Unix is safer than Linux because it's better supported: remember those big investments in RedHat last spring? That money is going into starting up enterprise-level support services, including partnerships with established companies who have the manpower to provide on-site support. Also, Linux is arguably safer than commercial Unices because it runs on more hardware platforms (Intel, Alpha, Sparc, PowerPC, StrongARM, MIPS, PalmPilot...). Wouldn't you like to know that you can take your app and recompile it for anything from an old 386 to a Sun ES10000?

328. Drew Roberts
January 7, 1999
mugget@geocities.com
Right now, I'm learning Linux for the purpose of setting up a modem pool and eventually an ISP. I'm working with someone from India who came to America to decide on hardware/software for the ISP he wants to set up. I've helped set up NT servers, and they crash, seemingly in a random way, like any Microsoft product. NT server is expensive, bulky, and inefficient. Linux is free. free. free. and people will help you out if you're using linux, just because of the spirit of it. I think Microsoft wants to sell product and really has no interest in India except as another market, another dependent. Isp's should have some level of independence, I think, from the software they use, and more dependence on the personnel they employ. For these reasons and for the reasons of having a server with good throughput, Linux or Unix should be used.

327. John Stracke
January 7, 1999
francis@netscape.com
If NT scales so well, why does Microsoft's own IS center need one NT box for every 50 users?

326. Ajoy
January 7, 1999
ajoysingh@hotmail.com
Linux. For running a stable and high performance server - I would strongly recommend Linux. The other advantage is of course cost as it is free.

325. Geoff Rivell
January 7, 1999
grivell@erols.com
Since I've only used Windows and Linux, I'd say Linux. It's open source, its faster, its more stable, and you can customise it effectively. Open Source means you can update apps yourself instead of playing the wait game. But I'd also pick other Unix's to NT because of remote administration benefits they have.

324. R. Balakrishnan
January 7, 1999
balki@hotmail.com
Windows NT & Linux (Not exclusive)

323. Karthick Chilaka
January 7, 1999
kchil@andrew.cmu.edu
Linux !! Robustness, Cost( What cost? :) ) Linux is a very very strong Network OS. Windows is more popular than Linux due to its easier interface and amount of software available, but for an ISP, they should not have any problem maintaining a Linux System. Their primary concern should be the performance, robustness and dependability of the system !! LINUX RULES !!!

 322. Venky Ramana
January 7, 1999
venkyramana@venkyramana.com
Unix has proven to be more scalable than Windows NT and is anyday a better bet (at least till today) than Win NT. For Indian ISPs that's the way to go.

321. Kanta
January 7, 1999
kanta@bellsouth.net
Unix, of course. Linux costs nothing and that's what its worth. WinNT is a video game not an op sys.

320. Chandrasekhar A
January 7, 1999
csekhar@informix.com
Anything but Windows is okay. Linux is the best. If anyone is looking to make life extremely difficult for himself, all he has to do is to use Windows.

319. Vale Kenny
January 7, 1999
secher@cynet.net
I have worked closely with both operating systems for several years now. I cut my teeth on NT, and grew dissatisfied as my knowledge increased. After about two years in the IT business, I discovered UNIX in general, and Linux in specific. I have used both of them side by side for slightly over two years, and after about two months of using Linux, I knew that NT could not hold a candle to the ability, speed, and power of Linux. I use both of them at home and at work, and invariably, my NT systems need to be rebooted about three times for every once for the Linux boxes. I have numerous applications running on my Linux boxes, and the NT systems are running fairly simple tasks. In every comparable task, the Linux computers far outstrip NT, and Linux can do several tasks that NT simply is incapable of. Indeed, at home I have NT on a Pentium II 300 Mhz, with 128 megs of RAM, and SCSI II drives. Linux runs on a Pentium 90, with 96 megs of RAM, and SCSI I drives. Linux runs faster than NT even taking into account the wide disparity of hardware in these two systems. The only reason I still have NT at home is to provide a test bed for migrating from legacy NT to Linux at work. There is no competition, Linux wins, hands down. Peace,
Vale

318. Farrell McGovern
January 7, 1999
farrellj@hotmail.com
Linux is a good, cheap and reliable system to operate. If you have lots of money, you can spend more of it on hardware and capacity than if you were to use NT.

 317. Shoban Jeyaraj
January 7, 1999
shobanjeyaraj@hotmail.com
As far as ISP's are concerned, the safest bet would be SUN Solaris (UNIX) based systems. They are far more reliable that Windows NT. I have worked with both NT and Solaris, and find that, Solaris outperforms NT and are capable of handling heavy load conditions. Personally, I prefer Linux, due to its system requirements, speed and cost.

316. Mayur
January 7, 1999
mayurbajaj@yahoo.com
Sun Solaris is a Proven platform os it's the best.
Linux is good for small ISP.
NT is a bull shit.

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