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Linux in 2004?

Posted by michael on from the vote-tux dept.

An anonymous reader writes "John Terpstra and Eric S. Raymond have started the ball rolling on LinuxWorld's poll of the community for what they think will happen in the world of Linux in 2004. Terpstra says 'I predict that during 2004 at least one significant USA government body will adopt Linux on the desktop.'" Depending on how you define "significant", this has already occurred.

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  1. Linux PDAs by YoungBonzi · · Score: 0, Troll

    Has anyone heard of these?

  2. Re:it still isnt gonna go mainstream by __aawwih8715 · · Score: 0, Troll

    http://Lindows.com/

    Lindows Bruthah.

    Wake up and smell the polished gui.

    Simplified, streamlined. Who couldn't use it?*

    *rhetorical question.

  3. Re:Does Germany Count? by a.ameri · · Score: 0, Troll

    Nah! How many years will it take people like you, to realize that "the old europe" is not a 1st world country?!! Get over it, it's old, it can't be first !!

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    -- /* Those who don't underestand Unix, are condemned to reinvent it poorly */