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Vida Digital: An alternative operating system

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 15, 1998

This article appeared on Vida Digital, a Spanish news site.

Here is the translation, courtesy of Babelfish.

Perhaps you do not know Linus Torvalds, but the people of
Microsoft know it very well. This programmer of Finland, creator of
the operating system Linux, is the one that has more approached to
break the mortal hug that has Microsoft on the industry of the
computers.

What for of Linux a winning operating system? He is fast,
stable, designed to run in all type of computers and most
important, Linux is free. As much its use as its sale, thing that
the competition between the developers has increased of contributed
Linux and to the fast improvement of the operating system.

In fact, Linux has improved so much that is arriving at the wide
doors of the business of computers and is proving to be a viable
alternative for Windows NT. This is because Linux allows the
businesses of running a server or workstation with a moderate
hardware whereas Windows NT needs update in the components the
hardware of the machine to run perfectly. But will run sometimes
Linux in the personal computasoras of people like you and I? Only
time will tell.

A thing yes is safe: this operating system of which the geniuses
in computation only speak, is here for qudar itself. That it does
to this operating system one so special one? Follow to ahead we
will explain the secret him.

The original story in Spanish is available
here

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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