these aren't any noobs. they are CS students, and they care because their job might be on linux even if their desktop is windows. that's a point we have to make.
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 22:08, Dotan Cohen <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/10/30 Eli Billauer <[email protected]>: > > Hello, > > > > > > I'm working on the short talk I'm going to give on Wednesday on the W2L > > opening event. > > > > > > I'd like to give some examples of well-known uses of GNU/Linux. Does > > anyone have information, or even better, pointers to credible sources of > > such information? > > > > > > Does anyone have any credible number of Linux penetration in servers, > > business and government desktops? > > > > > > For example, some of Edimax wireless routers are actually Linux > > machines. How do I know? Because they give a link to the source. (See > > http://www.edimax.com/en/produce_detail.php?pd_id=268&pl1_id=3&pl2_id=18) > > > > > > I need more like these. Or articles. > > > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Eli > > > > You can tell them that Dotan Cohen uses Linux at home. > > Seriously, Linux noobs don't care which toasters or badgers are > running Linux. They want to know if their desktop can do in Linux what > it did in Windows. That's all. > > -- > Dotan Cohen > > http://what-is-what.com > http://gibberish.co.il > _______________________________________________ > Haifux mailing list > [email protected] > http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux > -- Joan Crawford<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/joan_crawford.html> - "I, Joan Crawford, I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend."
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