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CNN: Can you install Linux? I think I can

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 28, 1999

[ Thanks to Ernest
Pecounis
for this link. ]

Linux may be leading the open-source movement but is it the
software for the people?

“It depends. Would you recognize a video card if it jumped off a
motherboard?…”

“My advice is if you’ve just barely mastered Windows, extremely
literal and never touched a computer in the DOS/UNIX era, stick
with Windows or go with a more user-friendly Linux distributor like
Red Hat.”

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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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