<div dir="ltr">these aren't any noobs. they are CS students, and they care because their job might be on linux even if their desktop is windows. that's a point we have to make. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 22:08, Dotan Cohen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dotancohen@gmail.com">dotancohen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">2009/10/30 Eli Billauer <<a href="mailto:eli@billauer.co.il">eli@billauer.co.il</a>>:<br>
<div class="im">> Hello,<br>
><br>
><br>
> I'm working on the short talk I'm going to give on Wednesday on the W2L<br>
> opening event.<br>
><br>
><br>
> I'd like to give some examples of well-known uses of GNU/Linux. Does<br>
> anyone have information, or even better, pointers to credible sources of<br>
> such information?<br>
><br>
><br>
> Does anyone have any credible number of Linux penetration in servers,<br>
> business and government desktops?<br>
><br>
><br>
> For example, some of Edimax wireless routers are actually Linux<br>
> machines. How do I know? Because they give a link to the source. (See<br>
> <a href="http://www.edimax.com/en/produce_detail.php?pd_id=268&pl1_id=3&pl2_id=18" target="_blank">http://www.edimax.com/en/produce_detail.php?pd_id=268&pl1_id=3&pl2_id=18</a> )<br>
><br>
><br>
> I need more like these. Or articles.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Thanks in advance,<br>
><br>
> Eli<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>You can tell them that Dotan Cohen uses Linux at home.<br>
<br>
Seriously, Linux noobs don't care which toasters or badgers are<br>
running Linux. They want to know if their desktop can do in Linux what<br>
it did in Windows. That's all.<br>
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--<br>
Dotan Cohen<br>
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