[CS-FSLUG] It's starting

[Fred Miller]

On Tuesday October 19 2004 3:29 pm, Ed Hurst wrote:
> My buddy at the computer shop in town got a bushel of viruses a few
> months ago. He already knew about Open Source, but had doubts because
> of the lack of "business apps". Then he got some more viruses and
> decided to install SuSE on one of his spares. Fell in love with it.
> Then he found out I run FreeBSD and was hot to learn it, too.
>
> Now he mentions to customers the phrase "virus free" and a few are
> beginning to perk their ears up. Folks in our area have had a lot of
> it. Today, one of his customers called and asked for private help
> installing and running Knoppix 3.6. I really don't care about the money
> he offered; this is way out in the middle of nowhere, Texas, and
> somebody is giving serious consideration to jumping from XP to Linux.
>
> Time to rejoice!

Always!! :)

Fred

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