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Linus announcing the 2.6.25 Linux kernel
“It’s been long promised, but there it is now,” began Linux creator Linus Torvalds, announcing the 2.6.25 Linux kernel. He continued, “special thanks to Ingo who found and fixed a nasty-looking regression that turned out to not be a regression at all, but an old bug that just had not been triggering as reliably before. That said, that was just the last particular regression fix I was holding things up for, and it’s not like there weren’t a lot of other fixes too, they just didn’t end up being the final things that triggered my particular worries.” Linus added…
Ubuntu Hardy Heron: Ready for the masses?
Is Linux ready for the masses? A CW article would like us to believe so, but…
Is (was) Linux targeted towards the “casual computer users” in the first place? Not too sure about that. If you look at how Linux interfaces looked 10 years back, definitely no. I remember I used to hack around the *vms and make the desktop look as bright as other OSs. Things definitely have changed, but the reputation has lingered. Linux still remains an enigma to the masses. It always was like that. Windows for masses. Mac for the passionates. *nix for the programmers.
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