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[Hilos de Discusión] [Fecha] [Tema] [Autor]Miguel de Icaza wrote: > Chequen esta dirección. Linux fue la única alternativa que ganó > mercado en el último año, además de esto, la gente está muy contenta > con Linux en las grandes empresas: > > http://www.redhat.com/redhat/datapro.html > > Miguel. Mas de lo mismo:saludos chac The Cult of Linux In contrast to the overblown Win98 mega-packages and special reports ad nauseum, there was a nice piece today by Salon's Andrew Leonard about the cult that has grown up around Linux - a freeware-based collection of hacks that has become the alternative operating system of choice among a very vocal, computer geek minority. To the casual reader, the idea like Linux could ascend to a market position from which it could assail Microsoft's Windows-based desktop hegemony seems ludicrous. But Leonard puts it nicely in perspective: "One should never underestimate the cooperative power of passionate programmers working in the tradition of free software. First they gave us the Internet (which, like Linux, was once deemed too complex and geeky for the general public), and now they want to give us Linux - if not today, then tomorrow." And Leonard offers a fascinating nugget from an International Data Corporation analyst who "guesses that anywhere between 2 million and 6 million copies of Linux were installed in 1997 alone (by comparison, 1997 saw 3.8 million new installations of the Macintosh OS)." Of course, in a sidebar, Leonard notes that Linux remains essentially a collection of hacks for the technosavvy, although some of those hacks are a legitimate alternative for geeks who prefer looking at the world through something other than Windows. The Little Operating System That Could http://www.salonmag.com/21st