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"Nobody Uses Linux" is Not a Good Enough Answer
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| I am increasingly aware of more and more "regular" people using Linux. They
| bought a netbook, their son or daughter installed "this thing called Ubuntu"
| on their aging hardware, or maybe they just thought they'd try something new.
| There is indeed a quiet, but sizable group of Linux users out there who want
| to buy consumer products that "just work" with Linux. Frankly, I am one of
| them. I would be ecstatic to use the Eye-Fi card with my Acer Aspire One on
| the road, but someone thought I was not a viable part of the consumer market.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/nobody-uses-linux-not-good-enough-answer
Microlite Corporation releases BackupEDGE for Linux with Cloud Storage
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| Amazon uses a scalable, decentralized, fault tolerant server structure to
| guarantee 99.9% data availability at a cost far less expensive than building
| a data center and renting space. The only concern for the user is the
| reliability and speed of the local Internet connection.
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http://www.linuxpr.com/releases/11200.html
Related:
You're A Linux User/Supporter: You Just Don't Know It Yet
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| I'D like to start by asking you a series of seemingly unrelated questions.
| Have you watched Shrek or Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone? Have you
| flown on Continental, Virgin America or Singapore Airlines? Do you drive a
| BMW, Fiat or Renault car? Are you serving in the United States Army? Have
| you ever bought anything online using Paypal? Have you ever stayed in a
| Sheraton hotel? Or travelled by train in Canada?
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http://www.raiden.net/?cat=2&aid=409
The hidden world of Linux
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| There are many great FOSS projects that utilise old PC hardware and give it a
| new lease of life. The best is desktop computing with various Linux
| distribution flavours like Mint, PCLinux, Ubuntu and countless others. In
| fact it is my considered belief that the best hardware to run Linux on is
| infact (almost) any machine that is at least 12 months old. It is possible,
| of course, to select components based on the degree (and maturity) of the
| specific support under Linux but this has two major drawbacks.
|
| [...]
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| Not only do such projects look to modify embedded Linux devices, but some
| great projects have sprung up to utilise old PCs every household seems to
| accumulate in order to fulfil a number of key uses. For example,
| comprehensive firewall distributions like IPCop or Smoothwall or NAS
| distributions like FreeNAS (although this is based on BSD.) These are not
| dirty hacked operating systems either but very mature, streamlined, low
| memory footprint distributions which run headlessly. Being totally
| administered through a web browser makes these distributions feel extremely
| professional and polished (even if the archaic hardware they are running on
| doesn’t) this being coupled by the extraordinary amount of options present
| really makes these projects an extraordinary example of the flexibility of
| Linux/BSD.
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http://whyamistilltyping.wordpress.com/2008/04/05/the-hidden-world-of-linux/
What CAN’T Linux do?
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| 1. The story mentioned above. A man installs Linux on sixteen Playstation 3s
| (with zero hardware modifications), clusters them together, and creates a
| system to simulate black holes.
| 2. Installing Linux on a Mac. I was just reading the most recent Wired
| magazine that has a good story on how Apple has created a very closed system
| where only Apple software plays on Apple hardware. Hello Yellow Dog Linux! I
| have run Linux on an iBook - it was sweet.
| 3. Routers. We all know that Linux works well on routers. OpenWRT installs
| well on many Linksys routers.
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| 11. Airplane black boxes. Montavista uses a Carrier Grade Linux to power
| in-flight recorders.
| 12. Brain surgery. Yep. This Linux-powered robot helps in brain surgery.
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http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=186
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