Linux Users to Blame for Lack of Linux Popularity

Posted by gsh on Jan 16, 2008 1:03 AM EDT
MadPenguin.org; By Matt Hartley
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A lot of us spend a lot of time talking about how we are preaching the value of Linux to our Linux using friends, but how hard are we collectively working to make sure others outside of our comfort zone understand that popular Linux distros are a viable OS alternative? If you are like me, you probably are not doing nearly enough.

[I vehemently disagree, it is because of our perseverance and personal advocacy that the use of FOSS continues to grow by leaps and bounds. - Scott]

Not too many years ago, I was very much into passing out Live CDs to anyone who was willing to take one to try. My success rate was roughly 50/50, and at the time, I was tossing around Knoppix for most people, and in some rare instances, provided Xandros for the most die-hard Windows user who preferred something they could just install.

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