The GUI installer and configuration tools are vastly improved and very usable. The hardware support is also unparalleled.
Developers ought to embrace that notion.
The developers of HamcomOffice, a suite of applications from Korea, haven't. Many high-level features have been greatly enhanced in the 2.4 kernel, including scalability and reliability, making Linux a very attractive option for enterprise OS implementations in which cost savings and high performance are paramount. If you're a Linux administrator and you're still using telnet for authentication, your network could be in danger. Secure Shell is a protocol for secure terminal sessions over the Internet. This means you can control who gets into your servers with strong cryptography, keep passphrases from being transmitted in the clear over the Internet, and strongly encrypt as well as compress terminal sesions as they happen.