I live in a little village close to the city and one of the houses close to my property is for rent since more than ten years. A lot of families and people succeeded in that house and every time someone new joined my Linux evangelist hat jumped in my head.
I’ve always presented myself as a Linux geek to my neighbours and it has been nice seeing how the Linux word evolved (with funny and surprising quotes) during the past ten years in their minds. A friend of mine (Aretha Battistutta) made a little comic strip out of the topic and the result is simply amazing.
Enjoy!
Article by Andrea Veri
Law student, GNOME Sysadmin and Accounts Team Lead, GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman, Debian Developer, Fedora packager and Blogger at HTML.it
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lovly and very, very true
What I really often hear is: Linux? stay away with that crap.
And when I ask: have you ever tried linux?
They almost answer is: Nope!
[...] I live in a little village close to the city and one of the houses close to my property is for rent since more than ten years. [...]
One of my not very much technically skilled friends (who uses Ubuntu Linux on his laptop) referencing one software developer known by both of us: “He works for Ubuntu.”
“What, did he change a job? When I talked to him last time, he was working for RedHat.”
“RedHat you say? What’s it?”
“One Linux distribution.”
“Erm… ok. Linux and Ubuntu – it’s just the same for me.”
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It’s interesting that on Ubuntu’s web site you have to dig around a bit to actually find any mention of “Linux”. It’s on the first page of derivatives’ sites, such as [KXL]ubuntu.
[...] The Linux’s perception of my neighbours I’ve always presented myself as a Linux geek to my neighbours and it has been nice seeing how the Linux word evolved (with funny and surprising quotes) during the past ten years in their minds. A friend of mine (Aretha Battistutta) made a little comic strip out of the topic and the result is simply amazing. [...]
Great comic strip! I had a good laugh reading it. I didn’t know much about Linux, until I switched to it earlier this year. I don’t do much software development or IT work, but I finally got sick of WinXP crashing on me every 2 years.
Now I’m running Debian (yes I started out using Ubuntu). At least now I don’t feel like Microsoft, Norton Antivirus and God knows what else is spying on me and uploading backdoors through Windows Updates. ;)
Actually, I did try Red Hat back in the mid 90′s, but at the time I was really big into online gaming (Battlefield 1942). So I didn’t have the patients or motivation to learn it back then, because gaming support has never been one of Linux’s strong suits. I’m glad Valve Software is finally trying to change that, and is looking to release Steam on Linux.