From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 9 16:04:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA29839 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 16:04:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from osibisa.cl.msu.edu (osibisa.cl.msu.edu [35.8.1.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA29823 for ; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 16:04:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ikhala@osibisa.cl.msu.edu) Received: by osibisa.cl.msu.edu (SMI-8.6/MSU-2.20) id UAA03612; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 20:05:21 -0400 Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 20:05:21 -0400 From: original man Message-Id: <199804100005.UAA03612@osibisa.cl.msu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Linux on the npr's All Things Considered X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Did anyone catch the piece on National Public Radio's All Things Considered about Linux. If you you have real audio you can get the interview at this URL http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/archives/1998/current.html Not sure how long it'll be there as they update their current.html everyday. Here's a short synopsis Linux OS -- Windows is the dominant operating system that makes computers do what they do when you tell them to. But there's another operating system that's free -- the creation of a Finnish programmer who put it out on the world wide web and invited any and all to improve it. The resulting "committee-written" system is finding favor with more and more computer-savvy users worldwide. And it's free. NPR's Dan Charles reports on Linux's founder and how his creation is faring. (8:15) It was interesting to say the least i'khala To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message