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:The Sunday Times: Why Not Break Free?
The Sunday Times: Why Not Break Free?
Feb 5, 2006, 14 :00 UTC (4 Talkback[s]) (5480 reads)

(Other stories by Barry Collins)

[ Thanks to R.Smith for this link. ]

"Danny and Linda Lee, who are both in their mid-50s, know as much about computers as they do about gangsta rap. Yet Mr and Mrs Lee's computer at their home in Bedhampton, Hampshire, doesn't run Microsoft Windows. Nor is it a newbie-friendly Mac. 'I gave my parents a machine running Linux, and they know no different,' says their son Wayne. 'I showed them where to click to start the internet, and they got on with it. It doesn’t faze them at all.'

"Wayne and his parents are among the growing legions turning their backs on conventional, commercial computer software and, instead, trying open-source programs..."

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I read the article and they never mentio ...   Some kind of an OSI biased article   
Lito Esquer
Feb 5, 2006, 20:43:51
 
We ran the Windows gauntlet the past few ...   Open Source Needed For A Functional Computer   
lord vader
Feb 6, 2006, 04:49:28
 
It packs a lot in a 60 MB CD and runs on ...   try puppy linux   
wildpossum
Feb 6, 2006, 05:49:11
 
The Sheffield College has recently becom ...   OSS - short courses   
Dave Pickersgill
Mar 11, 2006, 13:42:42
 
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