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Article #58243Whats this Linux thing then
From: dkd
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 1996 00:00
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 1996 00:00
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In article <01bb686c.4953b580$8e3e25ca@om-wel-00019>, dclarke@ords.co.nz says... > All, > > I've been seeing all these references to Linux this and Linux that, and > apart from it being a flavor of UNIX whats it so popular for, what are > people installing it on partitions on the HDD?? > > And to make me look like a total thicko - how hard is it to build one into > a Intanet web server?? > > > Dave Clarke > dclarke@ords.co.nz > I set it up so that I can program and test perl programs for the internet. Apart from that, it beats having to become a slave to Microsoft. There are many applications that run on Linux. Generally though I use it to experiment with. -Danielle.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,344fdb76d6274ce0,start X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: dkd@mail.interconnect.com.au Subject: Whats this Linux thing then Date: 1996/07/05 Message-ID: <MPLANET.31db63eadkd989683@news.m> X-Deja-AN: 168155494 x-gateway: notes@peg.apc.org newsgroups: aus.computers.linux