Cannot generalize... (Score 1)

Hi, In my Institute, students and faculty in the Computer Science and Automation dept. exclusively use GNU/Linux based systems. Non-technical staff use M$ based systems. One of my friends project was based on GNU/Linux! When I asked some student in that dept. why they use GNU/Linux, they laughed and said "Window$ crashed every now and then and GNU/Linux is very stable and hardly requires reboot"(direct speech). More over, most of the web/mail servers are running on GNU/Linux. I used to use M$ Window$ until I got hooked up to Linux three years back. I used M$ simply because most of the scientific programs required for my research in crystallography were running under Windose(More software for GNU/Linux is coming up now, good sign!). Now, I am extermely happy that I am working on the GNU/Linux platform. I thank all the developers around the world who contributed to such a wonderful OS! -mdpras