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Linux Going Mainstream

Posted by michael on from the oh-joy dept.

Gossi writes "The BBC is carrying an excellent overview of the growing use of Linux, by many different fields. The article says it all, really, and is probably something you should show your Boss."

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  1. This totally cracked me up! by Snebjorn · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In the very first paragraph I read "IBM, for one, is..." - and found myself ROFL! :-)

    Snebjorn

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    Faster-Harder-Louder
  2. OT, but..... by Eradicator2k3 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Couldn't help noticing the OSDN "Dating Service" banner at the top of the page. So what's it going to be then "Girls for Nerds. Boobs that Matter?"

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    Mr. T pitied this fool on 27 July 1992.
  3. Re:Linux going mainstream? by Winkhorst · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "what's a good obscure OS?"

    TRON, babes. It runs the Seawolf arms system and it's on all those little Toyotas coming out of Japan. And it's open source. And it is, in fact, the most widely used OS in the world.

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    "Is this Winkhorst a nova criminal?" "No just a technical sergeant wanted for interrogation."
  4. World Domination, the Open and Free way by ComputatusMaximus · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    This is the next step in the World Domination of Open Source/Free Software that we've been talking about for years.

    The good news is this is the kind of World Domination that isn't bad.

    Nothing to see, move along.

  5. Re:Linux going mainstream? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I am switching to the FREE DOS that comes with dell now.

    HA! You people and your bloated multi-tasking operating systems! Linux 2.6's scheduler is O(1)? Well mine is O(0)!