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LinuxWorld Australia: Apples Bowl Over Uni’s Linux Desktops

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Web Webster
Web Webster
May 24, 2005

“Hope of Linux tackling the desktop market has suffered a
reality check with the University of Melbourne’s Trinity College
dumping the penguin in favour of Unix cousin Mac OS X, not
x86-based rival, Windows.

“A lab of 20 PCs running Debian GNU/Linux will be replaced by G5
iMacs with the compelling reasons for the migration being a ‘slick
user interface’ and ease of use, according to Trinity College
systems administrator Tim Bell…”


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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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