In article , rapskat wrote:
Portability - Linux runs on every major hardware architecture in use
today. This means that you are not stuck with a particular OS just
because you use a particular arch. Got a PowerPC Mac? Linux will run it.

And with Mac on Linux, you can run OS X as a user-mode process under Linux,
giving you the best of both worlds. If you don't mind the cost of the
hardware, probably the best computing platform you can get right now would
be a G5 Mac with Linux and MOL.

....
Security - Linux was developed from the ground up with security in mind.

Unfortunately, most of the applications in a typical distrubtion weren't
developed with security in mind. :-( Hell, most distributions still even
include sendmail (although fortunately many now default to something sane,
like postfix).

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--Tim Smith