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The Linux Chronicles, Part 1

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 2 comments
The Register; By Andrew Orlowski 		Mail this story
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Last Autumn I volunteered to review Windows 7. But in the following weeks, I found Linux to be preferable in many ways. This is pretty significant progress, and outside the 'community' has gone largely unnoticed, too - I haven't seen all that many Ubuntu stories in the Wall Street Journal. But what comes next is going to be pretty challenging for everyone involved – and that's what I'll look at here. But first a bit of history, starting with a confession.

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Sander_Marechal ·
The article references this article, which is a good and funny read: http://www.drdobbs.com/184405140
djohnston ·
Quoting:There are now nine items in BOOT.INI: the original W2K starter, a brace of two-entries-each NT4s (one Turkish), a Windows 98, and three assorted Linuxen. Left to start up by itself, the machine chooses a broken installation of SUSE and halts with a kernel panic.
Pretty funny.

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