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Thoughts On Linux

10 Aug 2005
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Well, after a week of playing about with Ubuntu and more recently Fedora Core 4 (running KDE), I have realised what Microsoft did with Windows. I love the idea behind Linux and its various distros such as Debian (I’m totally for open source software, and all the RMS stuff), but I hate the implementation. Linux [...]

What It's About: Hey, I'm Chris. I'm an English Theoretical Physics student, but most of this site is to do with web development topics. I like messing about with all sorts of programming languages, and generally hacking things together.
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