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The Linux Uprising

Posted by michael on from the when-penguins-attack dept.

ballpoint writes "Business Week is featuring a list of articles under the header 'The Linux Uprising' including topics like 'Red Flags for Red Hat' and 'A Bad, Sad Hollywood Ending?' touching everything dear to the Slashdot community. A good read to align yourself with what mainstream businesspeople are fed."

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  1. Red flag linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is a chinese linux distro

  2. Re:The Zionist Uprising. by Centinel · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Ah yes, the zionists. The typical code-word used for uppity Jewish people who you'd rather roll over and bare their throats.

    So how do you explain the legions of anti-Zionist Jews in the peace movement who are sick and tired of having their voices drowned out by the shrill Likudnik lobby?

    We have a fifth column of a political party from a foreign power in the fourth estate and government halls of power in this country, manipulating America to fight its wars. It's that simple.

    "All this happened in the open, with fanfare, to make a public example of McKinney--so that every senator and congressperson would know that criticizing Sharon is tantamount to political suicide. Not content with this flexing of power, the pro-Israel lobby--which consists of Jews and extreme right-wing Christian fundamentalists--is now pushing the Bush administration to start a war in Iraq. This, too, openly and in full view of the American public. Dozens of articles in the important newspapers point out the Jewish pro-war influence as a plain political fact."

    --Uri Avnery, "Manufacturing Anti-Semites"

  3. What Linux Needs by Poeir · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Okay, so I haven't RTFAd yet, but I was talking with one of my less-geek friends about Linux the other day, and in my opinion, Linux needs three things to really get going.
    1. Get rid of dependency Hell. Debian's got a good start on this, but it's installation is a bit difficult. Red Hat, at least, should include apt4rpm as part of its base packaging system.

    2. Games. idGames has a good start here, and WineX helps a lot. Bioware's getting started as well.

    3. Television commercials. I'm guessing there are a lot of people who, if they knew about Linux, odd are they'd want it. You know, the ones who want an instant messenger, e-mail client, and Internet browser.
    Once that's done, Linux will be well on its way to mainstream use.
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    Sigs are like bumper stickers.
  4. Re:Hrmph. by Rojo^ · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    The crap I spouted off was perfectly well understood by the tree-hugging hippy I was talking with. Incidentally, she doesn't know much about computers or the politics of Open Source vs. Closed, and her knowledge of Linux is that it isn't made by Microsoft. Her next email to me said:
    I know, but see the thing is that he does dictate what you will use. And for some reason, we're letting him get away with it. That's what bothers me about the whole thing. I mean yes, of course, make as much money as you can. Warren Buffett is my hero. I suppose I should take my anger out on big brother instead of gates, but at some point you would hope that ethical, if not legal, considerations would come in.
    Smart hippy.
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