[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“The first thing that many newcomers to Linux comment upon is
how similar it is to Windows. However, it wasn’t always like that;
the resemblance is only skin deep and distributions such as Fedora
Red Hat (the subject of this weeks Bootcamp) are a fairly recent
effort to make Linux more user-friendly.“Behind the scenes Linux can still be an awkward customer but
that needn’t concern the average user who simply wants to browse
the internet, send and receive emails, create documents, view
images and the thousand and one other things we expect of
multimedia PCs these days…”
Related Story:
The
Telegraph: Bootcamp 318: Linux–What’s It All About?(Mar 26,
2004)