Re: Why is this newsgroup called alt.OS.linux?



To: s. keeling
I am talking from the business computing standpoint. Linux is and will still
be confined to the back end.

"s. keeling" <keeling@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"icecreamer" <icecreamer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Why is this newsgroup called alt.OS.linux?

Troll.

To: icecreamer
Linux will never be a popular desktop OS, but it is and has been for
years a

Yes, it will. My clueless musician buddy, with a non-functional,
pirated version of Cakewalk, loves rosegarden.

Multiply by no. of Windows users. Most of them just haven't run into
anyone like me, yet. :-)


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