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How Linux saved my life

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 12 comments
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Have you ever been in a situation where you realised the frailty of your own existence? It happened to me. I sat thinking this is the end of the line but how little did I realise that I had a saviour alongside me in the form of the free open source operating system called Linux.

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Comments (12)

Steven_Rosenber ·
If somebody -- anybody -- wishes to slog through all five screens and summarize, please do. I just couldn't.
tuxchick ·
Ha! I was thinking the same thing, but I don't always want to be the complaining one :).
Steven_Rosenber ·
I'm already not happy with a Web site making me click five times just so then can serve me five ads, But I'm in the exact same business, so I understand.

Still, you've got to give me an incentive to keep clicking. Fake (or real) UFO stories just don't do it for me.
Sander_Marechal ·
Well... there's a bash version of "The towers of Hanoi" in it... Otherwise it's pretty lame.
tuxchick ·
Sander read the whole thing? Dang, you're tougher than me.
Sander_Marechal ·
I like to torture myself occasionally :-) But I still have problems reading Matt Hartley and Patrick Durusau articles though...
gus3 ·
Join the Borg, and you'll no longer have that problem.

No, you'll have myriads of other problems...
kdwillia ·
I made it through the first two paragraphs and realized that it wasn't even worthy for "bathroom reading". Shame to.. David Williams usually has good articles. But not this one.
hkwint ·
Quoting:I like to torture myself occasionally :-) But I still have problems reading Matt Hartley and Patrick Durusau articles though...


Don't read the latter. That kind of torture is a violation of the declaration of Human Rights of 1948 against which Amnesty should protest.
tuxchick ·
Probably against the Geneva Convention, too.
helios ·
"Probably against the Geneva Convention, too."

They've sent me a couple cease and desist letters as well. Reading back on a few of my blogs, I'm inclined to see the violations.
azerthoth ·
I can honestly say I suffered through the whole torment(ed/ing) piece. I want those minutes of my life back, including the beer it took to help deaden the pain and suffering.

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