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

In message <48D901B1.4765.alt.os.l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, sjohns wrote:

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

Haven't noticed all the sales of "netbooks", then? Several million Asus Eee
machines and competitors to go out this year, growing even more next year.
Can't run Vista, so the only alternative to putting Linux on them is the
increasingly antiquated, creaky Windows XP.
.

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