Learning to Love Linux
A couple of months ago I built a new PC and set it up running Linux. This was prompted by my desire to familiarize myself with that OS due to its similarity to Unix, an OS used on many new servers we recently upgraded to on the Public Safety radio system I manage at work.
After some period of gaining enough familiarity to be able to do the basic things, I am becoming increasingly impressed.
This weekend I installed Wine, a package that says it is not an emulator, but allows applications created for a Windows PC to operate in a Linux environment.
I am running a Linux distribution known as Mandriva 2006. Running Wine on this, I was able to install Amibroker, my favorite stock charting software on the Linux PC.
Linux is open source and has a reputation for being very stable.
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