32BitsOnline: GNU/Linux at the 1999 Winter Meeting of the American Astronomical Society | Linux Today

32BitsOnline: GNU/Linux at the 1999 Winter Meeting of the American Astronomical Society

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 9, 1999

“In the northeast corner of the Austin Convention Center’s vast
Exhibit Hall 1, in which all of the poster presentations are
located, 24 computers are available for meeting participants to
check e-mail, surf the Web, or whatever… nine are Intel-based Red
Hat GNU/Linux machines.

“I was so pleased that I was able to use a GNU/Linux machine to
do my Internet business…”


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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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