Ubuntu Rescued My Laptop
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| A few weeks ago I started seeing the "Blue Screen of Death" on my Sony
| Vaio PCG-K35 laptop every 10 minutes or so, making the computer nothing
| more than an overpriced 7 lb. brick.
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| [...]
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| This weekend while driving to South Carolina to meet with my fiance's
| brother (who also happens to be a minister and is going to marry us),
| I installed the Ubuntu Linux 6.10 (Edgy Eft) distribution that Id
| ownloaded and burnt to CD on my desktop.
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http://www.jccommerce.com/2006/11/21/ubuntu-rescued-my-laptop/
the latter part shows the 'network effect'. This viral nature is what leads
to exponential growth.
Related:
Linux desktop domination "just a matter of time"
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| Shuttleworth has been in the news a great deal lately, due to
| the skyrocketing popularity of the Ubuntu distro and because of
| major partnership deals he has made with Sun Microsystems, MySQL,
| Intel, Google, and others to use Ubuntu Server Edition in enterprise
| systems.
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS4646261136.html
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