Ten Years After | Linux Today

Ten Years After

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KS
Ken Starks
Jan 7, 2019

When I first gathered the initial volunteers for HeliOS, there were many people, even some who have read this blog for years; that questioned the decision to put Linux on every computer that left our shop. I mean, let’s face it. It’s a Windows World out there. Business, for the most part, use Windows almost exclusively. Or at least they did when this was getting started. Some said that we’d be wasting our resources by putting a little-known and difficult operating system on our machines.

KS

Ken Starks

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