Linux: the best and easiest to use OS around,

"The best"? For which values of "best"? As for 'easiest to use', that's not really my experience.

lots of distributions available,

Yeah, and multiple versions of libc, toolsets, applications, etc, etc, all slightly not compatible with each other. Each time when I want to install a single application and I've to upgrade an entire forest of dependencies just to get it up and running makes me grumble at Linux again.

All software sucks, all OSses suck, and that includes Linux. For some things, Linux might be easier to use, but for other things, it's just a frigging pain in the ass.

MySQL for almost all your database needs.

Until you start caring about your data.

Perl is of course the language of choice.

Except for tasks where other languages are more appropriate.

Abigail

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