On 7/6/06, Mark Twomey <bauwolf at indigo.ie> wrote:
> On 6 Jul 2006, at 12:06, justin flavin wrote:
>> > http://www.ourtweaks.com/articles/linux.html> >
> > windows person installs Ubuntu - and screws it up so much that
> > they re-install it no less than 20 times in the course of a week.
> > (!!!!)
>> As..tragic.. as that article reads it does give me pause for thought.
> Hasn't it been "the year of Linux on the desktop" for more than a
> decade now?
Well, its been on my desktop for going on 6 years now, so my "year of
linux on the desktop" was around 1999.
But you might find that thats a buzz phrase coined by over excited
RedHat or Novell marketing bods or over excited American geeks who
should know better, rather than anything Linus Torvalds has said.
> Regards,
> Mark.
>>
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