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Linux on the Tipping Point

Posted by Zonk on from the my-grandma-uses-darwin dept.

Reader stormcoder wrote to mention an article on Enterprise Linux I.T. in which the author posits that even though Linux is built on a legend, the reality of Linux outstrips even the myth. From the article: "..the fact that Linux has traditionally been compared to Microsoft's Windows brand products and not the other Unix variants will most likely lead the general public to perceive all this as Linux sailing on to new horizons while Microsoft stalls out. This perceptual shift should totally reverse the previous mainstream view that Microsoft and Intel were somehow at the forefront of high technology computing -- thereby pushing Linux over the magic edge of a social tipping point."

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  1. Ironic by caustiq · · Score: 5, Funny

    That page was riddled with Microsoft Windows advertisements...

    1. Re:Ironic by bcmm · · Score: 2, Funny

      That's pretty cool. Most people will laugh, few will believe the ads, and meanwhile MS is paying them for each person who reads an article about Linux's superiority.

      I wonder if any /.ers believe the "TCO" ads on /.?
      (Only here could you get meaning from a string like "/.?")

      --
      # cat /dev/mem | strings | grep -i llama
      Damn, my RAM is full of llamas.
    2. Re: Ironic by damiam · · Score: 2, Funny

      How does it feel to be an annoying, predictable Slashbot?
      .

      --
      It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
  2. It's the year of Linux! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Really! It is!

    No, really!

    *cough*

  3. Newsflash: Linux is awesome! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
  4. Re:What the hell... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Is there a torrent for Tipping Point? Does it have the current nVidia drivers?

  5. I knew it! by Ralph+Yarro · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Linux is built on a Legend" - Slashdot.

    That will be $5 billion please. Unmarked, and no funny business.

    --

    The real Ralph Yarro posts as Anonymous Coward. Anyone else is an impostor.
  6. One Hand? by Delta2.0 · · Score: 4, Funny
    Mr. Torvalds, a poor graduate student in Finland, single-handedly invented a computer operating system called Linux

    Doesn't it take two hands to type?

    1. Re:One Hand? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Doesn't it take two hands to type?

      Perhaps it does in decadent America. In Finland hands are in short supply and to use two for a task as simple as typing would be wasteful.

  7. That's a silly question... by Lendrick · · Score: 4, Funny

    A lot of people on Slashdot have tons of experience typing with one hand.

  8. Old news by appleLaserWriter · · Score: 2, Funny

    1996 called, they want their tipping point back.

  9. Ask and ye shall receive by menace3society · · Score: 2, Funny

    Lesbian Gnu/Linux. Porn-get into it!