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TLWIR Special: Three Signs That GNU/Linux Has Arrived

Posted by acrossad on · 8 comments
BeginLinux.com; By Rex Djere
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Three recent news items provided evidence that the age of GNU/Linux on the desktop is arriving. The years of GNU/Linux languishing on the pc desktop are finally drawing to a close. Whether you are looking forward to its release or not, no one can deny that Windows 8 will be a radical departure from the Windows of the past. I have had at least 1 Windows computer in my house from 1996 to today, but Windows 8’s arrival marks the first time that I am actually not considering upgrading. The reason? Two words: Ribbon Interface.

Gabe Newell, CEO of Valve Software, recently described Windows 8 as a “a catastrophe for everybody in the PC space”. That is a scathing indictment, and it explains why Valve has decided to support GNU/Linux with its Steam gaming platform.

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Comments (8)

Site not responding

I got to the article (if you can call it that) just fine. The MS FUD comment that immediately follows is almost as long as the "article".
Nope...

The connection was reset The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.

Tried at 30 minute intervals between 8 PM and 10:30 PM CST
Still can't access the article.....

Can now, thanks Scott
Just fyi....clicking the link takes me to a page that offers server and tutorial articles....nothing vaguely resembling the article title. As of 11 AM this morning anyway. Not complaining....just letting you know.

Here it is!

It is pretty obvious to me what's going on: someone doesn't want you to read this article, so they're flooding the site with requests (basically a Denial of Service). The site was working fine for weeks before this article was posted, and then it suddenly went down shortly after this article was posted to Lxer.

I'd like to see them try to do that with Google Docs. Here is the original version of the article as I wrote it in the outstanding Office Suite, Google Docs!!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QFtb0EF_ipRr3FxQeCg4icDF...

Please help to spread the word about the Google Docs version of this article (retweet via Twitter, share on Google+, Identi.ca, Facebook, etc.) I have also reposted this article to Lxer using the Google Docs version. The new version will hopefully be approved, and show up in the news feed soon. Whomever doesn't want you to read this will have a VERY hard time taking down our friends in Mountain View, California.
I have updated the link to the Google Docs link you provided. Let me know if anything goes wrong with it.

Scott
@Scott Ruecker Thank you!! Could you please re-run it through the queue? Most people were not able to view it the first time through.

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