[SLUG] The Linux Uprising

[Jonathan Worthington]

Good stuff.  :-)  I think Linux is getting to the stage where it can
seriously be considered as a desktop operating system.  It looks and feels
slick, (Open|Star) Office provide a good office toolset that is compatible
with MS Office and getting towards being as functional (it seems to miss
anything like MS Access though).  There are tools to let you browse the web,
send email etc pretty much just as well as you could under Windows.  There's
less and less that you lose when you migrate, especially as WINE gets
better.  With .NET and the Mono (http://www.go-mono.org/) project, it's
going to make it easier for developers to migrate their software from
Windows to Linux too.

Hail Linux... ;-)

Jonathan

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Adams, Jamie" <Jamie.Adams at homegroup.org.uk>
To: <scarborough at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 12:59 PM
Subject: [SLUG] The Linux Uprising


> Linux made the front cover of BusinessWeek magazine this week. Under the
> collective heading of "How a ragtag band of software geeks is
> threatening Sun and Microsoft--and turning the computer world upside
> down". It features a series of interesting and well researched articles,
> pretty much all of them looking at open-source in a positive and well
> informed way.
>
> It makes quite interesting reading, and stuff like this can only be good
> for the cause!
>
> You can view the articles online at:
> http://europe.businessweek.com/magazine/toc/03_09/B382203linux.htm
>
> Jamie
>
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