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Re: [LUG] Open source? What's that?

 

On Wednesday 03 February 2010 09:04:10 richard wrote:

> ......................   Look around pc world,
> how many of the shiny , expensive boxes  contain software you  could
> find  open source, free  alternatives  to.

Twelve years ago I used to buy shiny shrink wrapped boxes of Mandrake, SuSE 
and Debian (yes Debian!) from PC World in Aylesbury.  It must be nearly 5 
years since I last saw a Linux distro on sale at PC World anywhere, despite 
the fact that more and more hardware boxes proclaim that the contents 
are "Linux compatible".



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