[Nottingham] Linux for the masses

[Darren Fuller]

Shaun Turner - Footwerkpacific Limited wrote:

>Hi all!
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>Happy New Year and all that.
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>I am trying to encourage more people to use Linux and OpenOffice etc. (as we
>all are I am sure!) and I was wondering if any of you have written a "What
>is this Linux thing and how does it al work" type documents in plain
>non-technical language as we would like to put some documents about Linux on
>a new website we have set up.
>
>Sorry if this is kind of non-technical.
>
>I'll be at the RevolutionOS shindig if anyone wants to chat about it.
>
>Regards
>
>Shaun
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Just a thought but maybe something like that might be useful to have to 
hand any way, I know I'mtrying to talk my company back into GNU/Linux at 
the moment but am having a hard time trying to explain it to the 
decision makers and get the networking guys to beleive that it is 
supported, currently they think that if you install GNU/Linux then you 
are on your own!!!

Daz

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