10 Top Reasons for using Linux

1. It's FREE
   • The programming environment (C, C++, Tk/Tcl etc.) is also FREE
   • The complete documentation is FREE, too.
   • Most of the applications are FREE.
2. It's faster than Windows 95
3. It needs less RAM than Windows NT
4. It doesn't need a $20,000 platform to fly
5. It's extremely robust (Linux systems don't crash, they have scheduled system upgrades)
6. X11 performance rivals the best colour audio X-terminals, out-performing Windows X software by as much as 5000%
7. It runs on a variety of chips, from the fastest on the planet (400MHz Alpha), through PowerPC and Pentium, to dirt cheap 386.
8. Technical support is available free from Usenet 24 hours a day.
9. Netscape and Java are available
10. Learning Linux is worth a year of comp.sci, and skills translate to commercial Unix systems.