“Time for some self-criticism: Free Agent has become a bit of a
one-trick pony of late. Recent output might lead you to believe
this is PC World’s Ubuntu Linux column. Well, it isn’t. In fact,
Free Agent is not even intended to be a Linux column per se; the
overarching topic here is Free Software.“My recent focus on Ubuntu has stemmed in part from a lack of
time to explore other Linuxes–my daily work at PC World has little
to do with Linux or desktop computing in general–and in part from
the happy reality, for this time-pressed Ubuntu user, that Ubuntu
is the hottest distro out there for people (like many PC World
readers) who may be giving Linux a look for the first time…”
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