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Introducing Linux to Joe Average
eco2geek writes "The local "alternative newspaper" is running a cover story titled 'The Rebel Alliance: An unlikely army of hacker hippies, geek visionaries, idealistic teachers and corporate giants is making Portland ground zero of a digital revolution.' I'm not sure I'd go so far as to call Portland 'ground zero' of anything, but the article does give the average reader a good introduction to what Linux is, why it's important, and some of the politics surrounding it. (The article also mentions 'the frenetic Slashdot.org.' :-)"
rotciv86 your sig has a bug. You specify int, but main() is not returning anything.
No I am not in QA. I am your inner compiler.
"Hey... don't be mean." --Buckaroo Banzai
a German organisation for the spread of the word of Linux in Christian Churches
Talk about a limited target audience... sheesh.
DRM = Digitally Restricted Media. This is a viral sig, pass it on.
No, YOU have a space before the JPEG, you asswipe.
I cut n pasted the URL, so if there's a space, it's a Slashdot bug.
I'm not sure I'd go so far as to call Portland 'ground zero' of anything,
A bit OT, and have some karma to burn, but where exactly do you live that's so important that Portland can't be the epicenter for anything? And what does that comment have anything to do with a tech story? If your "not sure" then don't type it.
Some people forget that even Torvalds came from the igloo cubicles of an obscure University.
[end rant]
Disclaimer: I don't live in Portland.
"Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy."
-- Franz Kafka