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

 

On Wednesday 03 February 2010, Julian Hall wrote:
> David Bell wrote:
> > 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
>
> I've seen it more recently than that here in Wales, but I haven't been
> in PC World for a few months or so.
>
> Julian

I blame the introduction of hard drives myself.  When you only had a floppy 
drive you were very aware of which operating system you were using.  Bring 
back the c:\ prompt I say.

George

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