主题：关于Linux的推广——普通用户篇 -- 万斤

windows? And run it on linux with a little bit modification.

For a cluster, do u think it is easy to reinstall all of nodes? if yes, u can do the same thing on linux based clusters. Currently, linux based cluster systems are pretty stable if u just run common parallel programs. Like in my old team, we ran some cpu-intensive scientific programs on a couple of nodes. In general, the machines kept idle just around 1-2 weeks in one year. They were always working 24x7 in other days and only needed to be restarted 2~3 times one year.

Of course, if u always want to touch the kernels, that could be a nightmare.

But that's true, it is not easy to handle some packages on linux platform. Sometimes, the problems are very annoying. The good thing is that we have Dr. Google, though sometimes, it can't answer your questions.