[sclug] Post: See you later Linux

[mskadu@gmail.com]

> > After all, the techie crowd was never Linux's target audience!
>
>*really*?
>
> Have you read Linus' post[1] to comp.os.minix announcing Linux?  Does
> "Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote
> their own device drivers?" sound like targeting non-techies?
>
Nice try ;-)

But arent LUG members encouraged to distribute live-cds to just about
anyone? Also, Isnt pushing adoption to the non-techie user one of it's
advocates key objectives?

- Mayuresh

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 10:53 PM, Sean Furey
<sean-lists-sclug at furey.me.uk>wrote:

> Hi Mayuresh,
>
> Use whatever works for you.  I've just made the opposite move in work a
> few weeks ago, after somebody ported our code to Linux, and I've been
> delighted.  Each to his own.
>
> The only comment I'll really make about the post is in response to this:
>
> > After all, the techie crowd was never Linux's target audience!
>
> *really*?
>
> Have you read Linus' post[1] to comp.os.minix announcing Linux?  Does
> "Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote
> their own device drivers?" sound like targeting non-techies?
>
> Sean
>
> [1]
> http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1991Oct5.054106.4647 at klaava.Helsinki.FI
>



-- 
Mayuresh