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2003: Year of Linux in Asia?

Posted by michael on from the it's-nice-to-have-dreams dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "The Register has a story about traveling to a magical country where seeing Linux laptops displayed in stores is perfectly normal. The author then goes on to predict that this year will see much more desktop action coming not from Red Hat or Euro-Distros, but from China and India. Makes sense to me."

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  1. Linux IS GOOD by kg6kma · · Score: 0, Troll

    Although linux is a good operating system i dont think people in that country can jut leave microsoft. I think microsoft has too much of an economic and political and will do there hardest to keep linux down.

  2. New idiotic yearly ritual: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    proclaiming "2xxx is the year of linux!"

  3. Re:Linux is not going to get users to "move" ..... by HillBilly · · Score: 1, Troll

    Those potential users would love fresh water, sewer and electricity connected to the their residence before they could even care about computers, email or any other luxeries.

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