[CS-FSLUG] It's starting

[Jukka Y]

On Tuesday 19 October 2004 22:29, 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!

Nice to hear that they are starting to realize that FOSS is a good 
alternative. Has your buddy at the computer shop (or others you mentioned) 
explained what were the "business apps" he was looking for? Did he find them 
or some alternatives? If alternatives, what were they?

Blessings,
Jukka