Free Software Magazine: Breaking the Silence

“This was the year of Linux on the desktop, at least for my
family. I’ve been using a succession of free systems for years,
switching at a whim between FreeBSD, Gentoo, and Debian; I’m the
household geek though, so that doesn’t mean much. However, the real
turning point came when we decided to build a little computer out
of spare parts as a Christmas present for my in-laws. Rather than
giving them an old licensed version of Windows, or shelling out
much more than the value of the computer for a new copy of XP, I
decided to install Ubuntu.

“Since they were upgrading from a WebTV and would be starting
from scratch anyway, this seemed like an ideal time to try
something different…”

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