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osOpinion: Armed and Dangerous

[ Thanks to Kelly
McNeill
for this link. ]

“A friend of mine at work gave me a copy of “Armed Linux” the
other day and asked me to figure it out for him. He’s been curious
about Linux but didn’t want to get involved with a lot of disk
partitioning and some of the problems involved with using a dual
boot system under Windows. Come to think of it, neither do I.”

I took the CD home, unzipped the “ARMED.ZIP” file, read the
README.TXT file, rebooted as instructed, and 10 minutes later I was
net surfing. I was stunned. It found all my hardware and configured
everything correctly except my proxy server. All I could say was,
“Wowser, this is how it oughta be.
” That’s when I knew what’s
keeping the King of Redmond awake at night and why he’s beginning
to take Linux as a serious threat to his empire. He may be crazy
but he’s not stupid.”

“This is “Linux Lite”, “Desktop Linux”, or even “Linux for
Windows”. And this is the danger.”

Complete
Story

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