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Why I love Linux

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APCMag.com; By Ashton Mills
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One man's tale of how Windows screwed up a RAIDed drive configuration and the Linux community rallied round to fix it. WARNING: The following heartfelt love story is a nerdfest of extreme proportions. Enjoy.

It was a dark and stormy night...

Well, not really, but that's how all the classics start, isn't it? This one begins with that most fearsome of technological bugs -- user error. Fortunately the perpetrator (that's me, btw) redeems himself, and his data, in the end all thanks to the friendly penguin. I suppose then, this is really a love story.

Now in my job I tend to install all sorts of crap on my system, both Windows and Linux. I have partitions set aside for the sole purpose of being whipping boys to whatever software I install there...

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