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Introducing GNU/Linux Via Applications

Posted by kdawson on from the in-the-side-door dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A common problem with GNU/Linux for new users is not the operating system, but the switch in applications they must undertake to use it. Many who try to make the switch have little experience with the common open source applications available under GNU/Linux. The Kutztown GNU/Linux User Group, in Pennsylvania, is helping to change that on a large scale by distributing open source applications to faculty on Microsoft Windows machines first. Instead of selling GNU/Linux, the group is selling open source. Faculty at the school have been provided discs containing a number of popular open source applications compatible with Windows as part of a larger program to get more users to consider switching operating systems."

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  1. Re:"GNU/Linux" by orclevegam · · Score: 5, Funny

    Because when you refer to it as just Linux, it makes RMS cry.

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  2. Re:Good start... by maxume · · Score: 2, Funny

    Did you have a mouse?

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  3. Please note by einhverfr · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you install that CD on your computer, RMS will start requesting that you call the operating system GNU/Windows ;-)

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  4. Re:"GNU/Linux" by linvir · · Score: 2, Funny

    a minimum of 3 different implementations of said userland exist, aside from Stallman's. The only element of the GNU system which is currently genuinely irreplaceable is gcc.

    AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Shut up shut up shut up!

    The leader is good, the leader is great. I surrender my will, as of this date.

    LALALALALALALALA I'M NOT LISTENING I CAN'T HEAR YOU

    Richard SAYS that it should be GNU/Linux, and that's obviously correct because Richard is impartial in this matter and has no vested interest in shoehorning his organisation's name into the name of a software product used by millions, which is why I believe him from my heart down to my toes and back up to my fronthead.

    Stupid lazy Linus just wants to STEAL the precious, but we WON' T FUCKING LET HIM.