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America's Hams Embrace Linux

Posted by timothy on from the not-a-huge-surprise dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "The current survey question over on the eham site shows that around 40% of Amateur Radio operators that responded to the survey are using Linux/Unix as an operating system in some form or other. Part of the ham radio charter is to 'experiment and innovate'...seems the tradition is alive and well in ham radio. Some of the comments are interesting as well ...What's Amateur/Ham Radio? See www.eham.net/newham/"

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  1. Bayesian radio by Baloo+Ursidae · · Score: 5, Funny

    So if Hams are linux users, does that means spams are Windows users?

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  2. 40% ? by tealover · · Score: 5, Funny

    Quick, what's 40% of 100 ?

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