Fighting the "legacy" reputations of GNU/Linux, seventeen years later

Posted by scrubs on Oct 17, 2008 8:11 PM EDT
Free Software Magazine; By Ryan Cartwright 		Mail this story
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Regular readers of this column will know that I’m a fan of education and positive experience as an advocacy tool in place of shouting from rooftops. Winning the mindset of an average computer user — particularly home users — is never going to be a quick process but a recent experience showed me we still have some old and familiar hills to climb. How do we combat legacy reputations of GNU/Linux that are no longer valid? Ryan Cartwright explores how to combat the legacy reputations in GNU/Linux by way of a telling tale about Debian, Windows and his friend's printer. Read the whole article at Freesoftware Magazine.

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