Reasons for UNIX

• UNIX has a long history both in industry and academia.
• Knowing UNIX is more likely to help your job prospects than hinder them.
• UNIX is one of the current industry buzz words.
• It is hardware independent.
  85321 students are working with PCs, Alpha boxes and Sun workstations.
• Linux is free and runs on a cheap, popular type of computer that is the standard computing platform for the Department of Maths & Computing at Central Queensland University.
• The lecturer has experience and knowledge of UNIX.

Just as there are advantages in using UNIX there are also disadvantages. If you want to see a few of them have a look at the UNIX haters WWW page (the page might be a bit slow, or may have disappeared).

"My Operating System is better than yours" is a religious war that I don't want to discuss here.