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Dan Gillmor Reconsiders Linux on the Desktop

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the second-third-and-trillionth-chance dept.

Cyrus writes "Influential San Jose Mercury News tech columnist Dan Gillmore has reconsidered his stance against Linux. He now says it's rapidly converging to a viable desktop OS for the masses. "While I wasn't paying sufficient attention, the proverbial tortoise has been playing some serious catch-up.""

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  1. Nice to hear ... by Hekatchu · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's all about tortoises! So welcome into our happy family once you get here, Dan! :)

  2. Re:linux on the desktop by Trigun · · Score: 0, Troll

    I want a way that'll work with all distro's ./configure && make && su -c "make install"; su -c "ldconfig"

    an easy way to do it at the command line
    modprobe *

    easy way to remove programs that I've installed.
    rm -rf /

    There's all kinds of easy ways to do it. To do it right, however, takes class.