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One Less Windows User
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| After nearly five years, I needed to update my personal computer. My old Dell
| Inspiron has long since been rendered quaint by advances in processor speed
| and hard drive capacity. Rather than buy a new machine running Windows Vista
| or take the Mac plunge, I decided to walk the open source walk.
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| Once computer manufacturers see that there's an interest in Linux as an
| operating system, maybe more of them will follow Dell's very tentative lead
| and begin to build Linux boxes from the ground up. When the entire system is
| built and optimized for Linux, then maybe even my mom could use one.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/64306.html
Microsoft (and the Gardner/IDC puppets) still counts this as a Windows box.
"There's a lot of Linux out there -- much more than Microsoft generally signals
publicly -- and their customers are using it..."
--Paul DeGroot, a Directions On Microsoft analyst.
Recent:
Netbooks A Linux Stronghold?
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| For years, backers of open-source software have hoped to push Microsoft out
| of its dominant position in desktops and laptops. Windows-powered personal
| computers account for more than 90% of unit sales,. Linux 4%, Gartner says.
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http://ca.biz.yahoo.com/ibd/080807/tech.html?.v=1
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