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Ubuntu for My Boss
May 7, 2008, 03 :00 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (4425 reads)

(Other stories by Jason Kichen)

[ Thanks to The VAR Guy for this link. ]

"For as long as I can remember, Linux was 'marketed' and pushed towards the younger crowd--the computer-savvy, self-described 'geeky' community that had no problem getting Linux to work on their system. But now, even my boss is running Ubuntu. Here's our story.

"This has typically involved a good amount of command-line interaction and tweaking to get your system working. Though this is a simplistic way to describe what is in actuality a complex situation, the above is a lot of the reason why Linux adoption in computer users as a whole has been slow compared to Windows..."

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