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The First Post: Linux: The Geek Grows Up

[ Thanks to John
Warburton
for this link. ]

“Familiar with Apple’s ‘I’m a Mac, I’m a PC’ ad campaign, in
which David Mitchell plays uptight Windows PC to hip Mac
alternative, Robert Webb? You’d be forgiven for thinking that was
the choice: Windows or OSX.

“Actually, there’s a third way. Linux is an open source
operating system, its computer code freely available to anybody who
wants to use, tweak or improve it. It’s supported by a range of
software–open source and familiar names including Acrobat, Skype
and RealPlayer–that will do pretty much anything most people do on
a Mac or Windows machine…”

Complete
Story

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