LINUX is a fantastic operating system; I have 3 systems running in my office, and the slowest system (486DX2-66) is running LINUX.
Not because it's the least important, or does the least work; LINUX is running on that box because it gets the most done with the least amount of resources.
The most powerful system is running WinNT 4sp3. Why? because that system is just barely able to support it! it's a massive, overcoded OS.
But...
Whenever I do ANY new projects, I put them into a NT framework. Why? Because most people are running a Wintel system. This is an established fact. Wishing can't change it. The Knowledge that there are better OS's out there can't change it. Hatred for Microsoft can't change it.
It kinda follows that it makes since to optimize things for Wintel machines. If there is an Existing method of providing Easy-to-use Dynamic IP address assignment using a Wintel platform, then that is what should be done, and we are going to do it.
If there is a competing project using LINUX, OS/2(I hope so), Amiga, Macs, Atari, CP/M, XENIX, Apple I's, whatever, that's fine. Kewl. Go for it. Hope everything works just fine.
BUT I firmly believe something that is already working, that requires no special tools, frontends, scripts, programming, etc. and can be easily used by MOST of the people using the internet is preferable.