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Consulting Times: Putting the Linux Desktop Closer to the User

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 20, 2004

[ Thanks to Tom
Adelstein
for this link. ]

“The use of LiveCD’s has helped many curious people discover
Linux. One can simply place a LiveCD into a CD Rom drive, boot up
their computers and watch the flexible Linux kernel run a complete
operating system within memory. But, while this makes Linux
available without having to install the distribution on a hard
drive, it doesn’t necessarily help a new user navigate around the
system and/or understand Linux any better. New users could use a
blueprint to go along with the LiveCD. Our product team has done
that and in this article we tell you how and why…”

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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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