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<title>My Linux Revolution Issue 24</title>
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"Linux Gazette...<I>making Linux just a little more fun!</I>"
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<H2>My Linux Revolution </H2>
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<H4>By Ylian Saint-Hilaire & <A
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HREF="mailto:campo@atm.teleinfo.uqam.ca">Erik Campo</A></H4>
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For a long time, I lived in my cave, doing my thing. One day, I got
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out of my nice, very functional cave and saw that my fellow man had
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built a house just outside. It had all the same functions that my cave
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had but was much comfortable and livable (for one, you didn't have to
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push a boulder to close the door every night).
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Many years later, I got Linux installed on my personal computer, doing
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my thing. One day, surfing the net, I saw my fellow man programming a
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new version of Linux, which had a great user interface, was easy to
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install and possessed much more new added features. For a long time
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user of Linux on an i386 like me all Linux was good for was routing
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packets. This was a shock.
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Of course, the new user interface I am talking about is called the KDE
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project, which along with the new Red Hat distribution version 5.0,
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the very active www.linux.org site and the many applications available
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form an incredible package. To my great astonishment, Linux
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development is in full acceleration and is starting to be viewed as a
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real contender to Microsoft Windows NT. Not too long ago, people
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installing Linux on a computer where viewed as computer gurus, or
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mystic "roots". With the arrival of user friendliness, the question I
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ask myself is: Is Linux going to become an operating system for the
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general public?
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Some people will feel bad of loosing the respect of being the only
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ones able to install Linux in their social group. As opposed to them,
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I welcome this new age. I can't wait to install Linux at my grandma's
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place. The operating system of the people will finally come back to
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the people.
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This will, however change many things. If less technically inclined
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people jump on the Linux wagon, new demands will be generated for
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easier-to-use software and better support and help files. My grandma
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will ask for drag-and-drop support and very large fonts. The new
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people on the wagon will not be of much help in moving it forward
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(have you ever seen your grandma code lately?). Still, they will bring
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new respect to the OS, and, well, why not, perhaps new ideas.
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Some time ago, word from "Santa Cruz" was that we had to upgrade out
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of Linux. This of course was funny and it highlighted the maturity of
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Linux. Not only that Linux is free but it compares better (on my
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scorecard) to almost any other operating system. And unlike some
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"other" operating system, Linux is soon to become a general public
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operating system (hello grandma!).
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So, I finally decided I was going to move out of my cave and into I
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much more respectable house. But the most important thing of it all, I
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must start keeping track of the developments and start pushing the
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wagon myself. By the way, Linux makes a great Christmas gift!
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<center><H5>Copyright © 1998, Ylian Saint-Hilaire & Erik Campo<BR>
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Published in Issue 24 of <i>Linux Gazette</i>, January 1998</H5></center>
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