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Digital Tipping Point â A Q&A with Christian Einfeldt
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| Have you any other projects at the moment?
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| There is an effort that some of us have
| started for the purpose of bringing GNU-
| Linux to low income benefits groups. We
| have made contact with one of the
| largest charities in San Francisco.
| This is an organization that feeds
| thousands of people every month. They
| also have a jobs program. In connection
| with that jobs program, they have a
| computer lab. We are in the process of
| rolling out GNU-Linux in that context
| because we feel that Linux computers
| could do so much for people who are
| trying to lift themselves up off of the
| street.
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http://openbytes.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/digital-tipping-point-a-qa-with-christian-einfeldt/
You don't need to 'know' Linux to use Linux
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| Lately, I've been noticing stories about how
| to use Linux you need to know half-a-hundred
| Linux shell commands and the like. Ah, what
| century are you from? Today, if you can see
| a window and handle a mouse you're ready to
| use Linux.
|
| And, no, I'm not talking about how we're all
| already using Linux in devices like the TiVo
| or the Droid smartphone and through Linux-
| powered Web sites like Google. I'm talking
| about using Linux on the desktop.
|
| There is nothing, I repeat nothing, that
| requires any special knowledge to use Linux
| on the desktop today. If you've already
| mastered Windows XP, you'll have little more
| trouble moving to a Linux desktop like Red
| Hat's Fedora 12; Novell's openSUSE 11.2; or
| Canonical's Ubuntu 9.10 than you would in
| switching over to Windows 7.
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/15402/you_dont_need_to_know_linux_to_use_linux
Related:
Amsterdam mulls the Linux desktop
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| This shift in Dutch city government toward Linux and open source
| lends credibility to graduate student David B. Rankin recent
| hypothesis that desktop Linux may be nearing a tipping point
| within government settings, after which adoption can be expected
| to accelerate.
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS9492246163.html
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