Putting Open Source to the Mom Test

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Mar 6, 2009 4:17 PM EDT
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I stumbled across Amber's blog by accident today – she's writing a series of posts that document her experience installing and using Linux distros and a variety of open source applications. I hope open source developers are following along as stay-at-home-mom Amber shares her adventures in Linux and open source. She eloquently points out usability issues that make it hard for your average mom to race out and embrace open source. Developers: Take note. For that matter, publishers should take note – I hope Amber gets a book deal out of her blog series.

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Interesting article, I'll be following the rest of it. tracyanne 7 1,396 Mar 7, 2009 2:05 AM

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