Why Linux? and why not Linux?

Linux as a free and open source operating system. It presents many advantages, but also many challenges.

An open source technology represents:

1. Faster innovation
2. Over tested security and
3. Great freedom

Faster Innovation: Development is usually fast and sometimes too fast to be stable and suitable for production. Companies like RedHat separates the production distribution from the community maintained distribution due to this problem. The production distribution only contains the modules that has been tested and approved. On the other hand, the community distribution which is free, supports all the new features, but is not as stable as the production distribution.

Over Tested Security: Because the code is open, anyone can see a vulnerability and exploit it, but at the same time, anyone can also fix it within time. It's all about keeping up to date.

Great freedom: The users are not depending from any proprietary system or company, but rather, they are depending on the community. Usually, anyone can contribute to the code. All it takes is to fallow certain rules to approve your code. This is keep quality. Companies can also contribute and take advantage of the open source software. It's usually free to everyone.

Open source does not necessarily means free. It just means that the code is open to see. It's always a good practice to read the license. There are many open source licenses, and many are not free and come with some limitations to the user.

Another big disadvantage of open source software is that applications can disappear with no warning for lack of support. There is no warranty whatsoever. Because of this reason is a good idea to help out and become part of the community when we like a product.

The open source community encourages freedom, learning and independence.