On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:46:50 -0500, amicus_curious wrote:
> "7" <website_has_email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>
>> I think the quote
>> "
>> Linux Will Win the Desktop by Being Linux, Not 'Cheap Windows' "
>>
>> says so much more about Linux than whatever many anti-Linux shills and
>> analyists were claiming about Linux. There is so much more that Linux
>> does that just isn't on the radar with any other operating systems
>> today.
IMO, "free as in beer" is much underrated here. Yes there are better
reasons to use OSS, but free-as-in-beer will hook far more consumers than
some weird cathedral-and-bazaar explanation.
>>
> Name one thing
Install hundreds or even thousands of applications from a single menu.
Update those hundreds or even thousands of installed applications with
just a few mouseclicks.
If you want to customize an application, download the source code with a
few mouseclicks and have the necessary toolchain automatically downloaded
and installed along with it.
Save all the applications you've installed and updated to a CD by copying
a directory. On later installations, reinstall them all with a single
command without having to re-download anything. Or, save a computer-
generated list of installed applications and updates, and use it to
download and install them all with a single command.
Copy the whole filesystem over to a totally different make/model of
computer - and have it all 'just work' without having to reinstall
anything, activate anything, or pay anything.
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