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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John Hansen wrote: > There are two interesting articles in today's edition of Micromart > on the subject of Linux. In one the subject is "Why isn't Linux > catching on" and the other article is " Linux on the High Street". > > PC World was visited and were dismissive of Linux. > > It occurs to me that if Linux is to be accepted in all quarters > then Schools and Local and Central Government need to adopt a > Linux distro rather than promoting MS. > > > John W Hansen > Yeah had a quick scan of this in smiths today, may pick up a copy later, another thing it does say is for everyone to back one distro, somewhat controversial but it does also say there are too many distributions, Windows has 4 or 5 versions of vista, there are 100's of distros out there. I think if Linux is to be adopted then the community needs to get behind it(see my feynman post), and start to really promote it and support it, educate people on the importance of freedom etc. I can do some work on promotion, but get stuck on the support side or on specific issues, is anyone up for doing something on September 19th Software freedom day? Paul - -- Paul Sutton www.zleap.net Support Open and ISO standard file formats ISO 26300 odf http://www.odfalliance.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpfABwACgkQaggq1k2FJq3MywCeKtbXVk5ZNB5iIbbBBAdhINnY xvIAoI4w4Ds2Dw7VnEyBWX4+CHvy8zI1 =ThpH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html