Jason Locklin wrote:
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>> Goblin stated in post 4a775f8e$0$3945$6d5eeec5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on
>> 8/3/09 3:07 PM:
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>>>> Contrary to being "forgotten", GNU/Linux coverage seems to be
>>>> increasing at an accelerated rate.
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>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I made similar comments a week or so ago when, for the first time in
>>> about a year I too went into WHSmiths...It was coincidental that at the
>>> time one of the trolls was trying to convince people that Linux was not
>>> mentioned in the press.
>>>
>>> For those non UK'rs, WHSmiths is one of the biggest newsagent chains in
>>> the country (if not the biggest) and in the computing section it appears
>>> there is a Linux majority in the off the shelf press.
>>
>> With all that publicity, why do you think it is still essentially MIA on
>> the desktop?
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> I wouldn't at all be surprised if the 1% of people who are "geeky"
> enough to buy computer magazines are among the 1% of people who have
> tried Linux.
That's fair comment.
However, the interesting thing to me is that this appearance of a plethora
of magazines specialising in Linux, and general computer magazines now
featuring Linux very prominently, seems to be quite a recent phenomenon in
the UK. I "did a double take" myself 3 or 4 weeks ago when walking past
the magazine rack in our own local (and quite small) branch of Smiths.
There seemed to be quite a lot of them.
Why so suddenly, I wonder?
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