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Portrait: Michelle Murrain lives the open source lifestyle

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| Ten years ago Murrain was teaching biology and public health at Hampton 
| College in Massachusetts, when she was recruited to help a small nonprofit 
| get a server up on the Internet. It didn't have enough money to afford 
| host-provided email and a Web site, so Murrain helped the organization out 
| with Linux. "We installed Slackware on this old computer I had in my office. 
| That was my introduction to open source. A student I'd work with knew about 
| Linux and he helped set it up. I learned how to admin the box. Then he 
| graduated and went off, so I was the person holding the bag. It was a great 
| experience to find out there's this easier and cheaper way an organization 
| could get online."         
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http://www.linux.com/feature/143264

Being Debian leader can be 'scary at times'

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| "We do have our occasional heated discussions, we have 1000+ developers and 
| that sometimes means on any given topic, we may have 2000 opinions. There's 
| no telling people this is what we're going to do, it's more of the consensus 
| approach. If i tried anything without a reasonable amount of backing from the 
| developers, I'll probably get shot," he said with a chuckle when I met him at 
| the British International Motor Show in London last month.     
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/19917/1090/

Apart from the dramatic headline, it's a good article.


Recent:

Deploying KDE [on Debian GNU/Linux] to 52 million young people

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| By the end of this year 29,000 labs serving some 32,000,000 students will be
| fully deployed and in active use.
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| By the end of next year (2009) those numbers will have swelled to 53,000 labs
| serving some 52,000,000 students.
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http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2008/04/deploying-kde-to-52-million-young.html

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