Windows should not be freezing and locking up. Sounds like a HW problem to me.
Anyway, I have no qualms with them moving to Linux. Regardless the problems they are experiencing, Linux should be more widely used in government agencies. THe reason? MS has been doing secret updates to your OS without your knowledge lately, and if they can do that, what else can they do? That freaks me out from a National Security aspect.
-S
PS. Compiling code on a Linux box behind me as I type this too.
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