linux.conf.au: Taking FOSS to the masses
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| Open Day is focused on non-programmers. Jacinta says it's a way to expand the
| conference to the general public. Five days of talks and meetings for geeks
| precede Open Day - despite all the commercialisation associated with Linux
| these days, the Australian conference has retained its technical roots.
| Sponsors have realised that this is what makes it a success and have, wisely,
| not tried to change things in any way.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15891/1090/
A Very Geeky Christmas
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| My in-house tech support has a novel strategy for dealing with requests for
| guidance from my friends and relatives -- he offers free support for life, so
| long as the lay user agrees to ditch his old operating system in favor of the
| open source Linux.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/A-Very-Geeky-Christmas-60861.html
A lot of people help Mac and Windows users, even though it's Microsoft and
Apple who made money from selling deficient/shoddy software that they are
unwilling to actually support.
Related:
Ubuntu 7.10: Linux Flirts With Mainstream
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| The operating system is called Linux, and you probably use it every day
| without even knowing it. It powers ATMs, cell phones, video game consoles and
| TiVos, and it also powers a huge number of Web sites and Internet servers.
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http://www.technewsworld.com/story/60046.html
Windows Vista: Not Worth the $$$
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| I have said for months that Vista may be the O/S that pushes Linux
| into the mainstream. I honestly like Vista, but when I put myself
| into the seat of someone who is not very familiar with computers,
| it's a pain. Many people have spent time painstakingly learning the
| basics for their XP systems; by changing the file structure and
| even the names of the tabs so thorougly, Microsoft has put them
| back to square one, and made not only their computers, but their
| operating systems obsolete.
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http://gideon-macleish.joeuser.com/articles.asp?c=1&AID=151388
It's Channel Time For Linux
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| A new wave of emerging Linux application providers are doubling and
| even tripling their channel investments this year as they move to
| take Linux from a cult status relegated to business niches to a
| mainstream end-to-end solution stack.
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http://www.crn.com/software/198001430
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