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[News] Linux Desktops Open to the 'Masses' (Mainstream)

  • Subject: [News] Linux Desktops Open to the 'Masses' (Mainstream)
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2007 03:15:20 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
linux.conf.au: Taking FOSS to the masses

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| Open Day is focused on non-programmers. Jacinta says it's a way to expand the 
| conference to the general public. Five days of talks and meetings for geeks 
| precede Open Day - despite all the commercialisation associated with Linux 
| these days, the Australian conference has retained its technical roots. 
| Sponsors have realised that this is what makes it a success and have, wisely, 
| not tried to change things in any way.     
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15891/1090/

A Very Geeky Christmas

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| My in-house tech support has a novel strategy for dealing with requests for 
| guidance from my friends and relatives -- he offers free support for life, so 
| long as the lay user agrees to ditch his old operating system in favor of the 
| open source Linux.   
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/A-Very-Geeky-Christmas-60861.html

A lot of people help Mac and Windows users, even though it's Microsoft and
Apple who made money from selling deficient/shoddy software that they are
unwilling to actually support.


Related:

Ubuntu 7.10: Linux Flirts With Mainstream

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| The operating system is called Linux, and you probably use it every day 
| without even knowing it. It powers ATMs, cell phones, video game consoles and 
| TiVos, and it also powers a huge number of Web sites and Internet servers.  
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http://www.technewsworld.com/story/60046.html


Windows Vista: Not Worth the $$$

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| I have said for months that Vista may be the O/S that pushes Linux
| into the mainstream. I honestly like Vista, but when I put myself
| into the seat of someone who is not very familiar with computers,
| it's a pain. Many people have spent time painstakingly learning the
| basics for their XP systems; by changing the file structure and
| even the names of the tabs so thorougly, Microsoft has put them
| back to square one, and made not only their computers, but their
| operating systems obsolete.
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http://gideon-macleish.joeuser.com/articles.asp?c=1&AID=151388


It's Channel Time For Linux

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| A new wave of emerging Linux application providers are doubling and
| even tripling their channel investments this year as they move to
| take Linux from a cult status relegated to business niches to a
| mainstream end-to-end solution stack.
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http://www.crn.com/software/198001430

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