The INQ Takes a Dip into Open Sauce | Linux Today

The INQ Takes a Dip into Open Sauce

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 3, 2007

“Browsing through the stacks of press releases and statements of
seeming miracles by the open saucers, it seems as though we should
take a look at some of these offerings. Who knows, we might stumble
onto the Next Big Thing. If even the Vole can see some benefit to
open source, we would be crazy not to have a good look ourselves.
Crazy is as crazy does, so here goes.

“The hardware
Nothing fancy. A DIY whitebox from the local wholesale computer
market. Intel Celeron 2.8 Ghz CPU, 512MB RAM, 160GB Hitachi SATA
HD, BenQ DVD/R. Sound, video, and 10/100 Ethernet on the MSI
mainboard. All hardware known to work on the latest Fedora
release…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

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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