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FairFaxIT: Making a life with Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 9, 1999

“Celebration of the marriage of Linux and Macintosh took place
in January on the fringes of Macworld Expo in San Francisco. Linux
was, in fact, well represented on booths at the expo. “

“The event marked the release of LinuxPPC 5.0, the USB-enabled
version for the new G3s and iMacs, which also allows Macintosh
users to run either Linux or the MacOS on the same computer.”

“Of course, Apple is not about to dump its operating system and
throw its lot in with the fast-moving Linux environment”

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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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