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Non-Geek Use of GNU/Linux
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| When it comes to GNU/Linux, even though I
| was a late adopter amongst geeks, I am still
| an early adopter compared to many. I found
| another article describing the experiences
| of a non-geek with GNU/Linux. The important
| points I get from stories like these:
|
| * non-geeks can use GNU/Linux well
| * they do appreciate some of the many
| advantages of GNU/Linux
| * they do appreciate some help from
| family, friends or whoever sold the PC
| * if we all helped our friends migrate
| to GNU/Linux, the share of GNU/Linux
| would be pretty decent
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http://pogson.6k.ca/2010/07/05/non-geek-use-of-gnulinux/
Linux: We Put Our Money Where Our Mouth Is
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| This press release is to announce that for
| the month of July 2010 ERA Computers &
| Consulting (ERACC) is following the
| idiomatic phrase, âPut your money where your
| mouth is!â when it comes to our Linux PC
| sales. What do we mean? Read on.
|
| For every PC purchased from us in July 2010
| with any Linux distribution preinstalled
| ERACC will donate 5% of the sale to the Free
| Open Source Software (FOSS) project of your
| choice. As with most such offers there are
| caveats. These are:
|
| * The PC must be ordered and paid for
| within the month of July 2010.
| * The PC must be configured with at
| least the minimal configuration to have
| a working PC (case, power supply,
| motherboard, cpu, ram, hard drive, video
| adapter and operating system). You can
| choose to use your existing monitor and
| input devices.
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http://blog.eracc.com/2010/07/01/linux-we-put-our-money-where-our-mouth-is/
Recent:
he Geek Who Cried FUD
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| Finally, early one morning as the geek was
| getting ready to log off and head to bed, he
| stumbled across a site where a local school
| council member had written about getting
| school children off of the "unstable,
| unsupported, unworkable and potentially
| illegal" GNU/Linux systems that had been
| deployed a year earlier in school computer
| labs. On further investigation the bleary-
| eyed geek found that neither students nor
| teachers had complained about the computers.
| This was just pure anti-open source FUD.
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http://www.igneousquill.net/2010/01/geek-who-cried-fud.html
Related:
Russian schools abandon Windows after piracy scare
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| Microsoft says that the incident has nothing to do with them, but it
| appears that Russian schools in the area are so scared about being shipped
| off to a Siberian Gulag, that they are buying Linux gear instead.
|
| [..]
|
| According to Karpushin, schools would start using freely distributed
| software like the Linux OS, Russky office and Open office desktop apps,
| Ekho Moskvi reports.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37460
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