[Haifux] [HELP HELP] Uses of Linux in the "real world"

[Dotan Cohen]

2009/10/30 Eli Billauer <eli at billauer.co.il>:
> 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

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