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The Journal of Turkish Weekly: Free Turkish Operating System Rivals Windows

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 15, 2005

“The head of Microsoft Bill Gates, who visited Turkey recently,
has a rival living in Turkey. Emre Sokullu a resident of Istanbul,
has developed open coded Linux and adapted it to Turkish and named
it Turkix.

“One of the most important advantages of Turkix, which can be
downloaded from www.turkix.org, is that you can use it without
installing it on your computer. Turkix, which is Turkey’s first
Linux based integral Turkish operating system, has also attracted
the attention of the Europeans.

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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