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Tucows Network: Linux Making Gains

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 28, 1999

[ Thanks to Rob
Kennedy
for this link. ]

“Are you someone who doesn’t believe in the free market? Someone
who feels that if everyone worked together everything would be
better? Or are you someone who believes that the free market will
cure all; If only the Government could keep its mitts off of
things, we would all turn out okay.”

“Linux has proved that the best of both worlds can happen. I
recently got a peek at Mandrake Linux 7.0 Beta. The install on that
is very clean and quite good looking. I have also looked at Corel
Linux, Red Hat Linux, and Caldera. All of them install fairly
easily and all have a graphical desktop. Pretty impressive….”

Two years ago hardly anyone had ever even heard of Linux.
Now it is in the news everyday. The sales of Linux have grown about
300% over the last year. There are now hundreds of “distributions”
available for anyone.
The growth of Linux is amazing. As
again, you may ask, “When and why did all this happen?”

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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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