And the irony is, the Year of the Linux Desktop was 2017, when more than half the classroom computers were Chromebooks, powered by Linux.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/technology/google-education-chromebooks-schools.html Imagine that, get the kids hooked on it first. I wonder why no one else ever thought of that. On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 4:02 PM, Ted Roche <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 10:26 PM, > <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://tech.firstpost.com/news-analysis/the-great-linux- > game-25-years-and-maybe-the-year-of-linux-is-finally-here-331855.html > > > > How many times have they said "Maybe this year!?!?!" > > > > Ask the Cubs! > > "The future is here, it's just not very well distributed." I pretty > much committed to the Linux desktop a decade ago, and I'm not the only > one here, which is pretty curious for a Windows-only product forum. > Most of my clients with WIndows desktops (and some with Mac) have > Linux as the backend server. > > BSD-based OS X and the Linux-based internet have taken significant > chunks away from Windows. And even MS is starting to go Linux, as long > as they can get people to send them money to do so. And Android is a > Linux kernel. > > Linux is everywhere. That's a success, in my book. > > Winning the desktop? Yeah, what's the point of that? Live off the > royalties? > > > -- > Ted Roche > Ted Roche & Associates, LLC > http://www.tedroche.com > -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CACW6n4tdqsXP79jS62fcTGxf5udMaJeMhXKmOGjAzAE5k2=g...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
