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Offline sam

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Linux to Ship on More Desktops than Windows
« on: October 30, 2008, 17:39 »
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For those that decry the constant prediction of the “year of the Linux desktop” I am happy to say that next year Linux may actually ship on more desktops than Windows or the Mac. That is right, I said next year. What is driving this? Two words: fast boot.

http://www.linux-foundation.org/weblogs/jzemlin/2008/10/29/linux-to-ship-on-more-desktops-than-windows/
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Re: Linux to Ship on More Desktops than Windows
« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2008, 17:54 »
I think we should all go back to BBC BASIC, Sam. ;)
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Re: Linux to Ship on More Desktops than Windows
« Reply #2 on: October 30, 2008, 17:59 »
LOL!

The University observatory was running off code written for that until two years ago....
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Re: Linux to Ship on More Desktops than Windows
« Reply #3 on: October 30, 2008, 18:03 »
It was a great machine to cut your teeth on, very well thought out, imo. :)
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Re: Linux to Ship on More Desktops than Windows
« Reply #4 on: October 30, 2008, 19:08 »
I get nostalgic over my old Commodore 64.
There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is readily adopted.

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