RE: [OSS] Re: Linux for wimps and others (including Google) ;-)

Hi Guys!

"...Google's PC servers, which number in the thousands, run a stripped-down
version of Linux..":

"http://news.com.com/Googles+secret+of+success+Dealing+with+failure/2100-1032_3-5596811.html";
gtt
>From: "l_duvall" <lduvall@nwlink.com>
>Reply-To: "OSS" <oss@isoc-vn.org>
>To: gtt00@hotmail.com
>Subject: [OSS] Re: Linux for wimps ;-)
>Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 10:02:53 GMT
>
>The common belief that Linux is difficult to install is being perpetuated
>by word of mouth - not practical experience. The latest version of
>Mandrake (for example) is much, much simpler and faster to install than it
>was with the earlier versions. I just installed SimplyMepis and was amazed
>at how nicely everything went. It is time to start changing the word of
>mouth from how hard Linux is to install, to how easy and nicely many
>distributions install.
>
>
> > Subject: [unitescommunity] Linux for wimps ;-)
> > Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:21:36 +0000
> > From: J Cravens <jcravens42@yahoo.com>
> > To: unitescommunity@yahoogroups.com
> >
> > I'm not sure how available "Xandros" is to volunteers in developing
> > countries... I found this testimonial about it very interesting --
> > it's from a person who is a tutor at Open University for a
> > technology-related course. I'm posting it here because a while back,
> > some people said that the reason Linux isn't used as an operating
> > system is because it's too hard to install (never mind that MS is even
> > harder to install, but you don't know that because it's usually
> > already installed on your machine...):
>
> snip
>
>
>
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