On Thursday 28 December 2006 00:41, Rony wrote:
<quote> Platform Indpendence - Runs on Intel x86, ARM, Alpha, Sparc, Mips, SH, Sharc, Power Omap and many other architectures. </quote>
A windows user does not use non-ix86 platforms.
U are forgetting that a hughe number of doze users develop software for non x86 platforms and never even heard of Linux. This is particularly important for engineering students.