“If you were sat at your Linux computer one dark evening in late
1999, things would have been considerably different.“Your machine would probably be running either Red Hat 6.1 or
Mandrake 6.“Outside your window, the world was going crazy for all things
dotcom. Microsoft was prepping both Windows 2000 and its ill-fated
Millennium edition, while Apple had just released OS 9 and its
Power Mac G4.“As a Linux user, you’d have been an uber-geek, someone with an
obsessive interest in computing and far too much time on your
hands.“But things have changed. Linux is now an operating system
anyone can install and use, and it’s growing stronger every year.
Here’s how it happened.”
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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