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When I started working for this magazine, way back in 2004, Linux was really picking up momentum. That was back in those years when every year was supposed to be "the year of the Linux desktop," and the epic Linux vs. Windows battle was revving to a full burn.
Dear Reader,
When I started working for this magazine, way back in 2004, Linux was really picking up momentum. That was back in those years when every year was supposed to be "the year of the Linux desktop," and the epic Linux vs. Windows battle was revving to a full burn.
One of the best examples of the Linux juggernaut was the city of Munich, which declared it would be transitioning all its computers to Linux in 2004. We at Linux New Media were particularly excited about this move because, at the time, the world headquarters of our small company was located in Munich, and our German colleagues were part of that groundswell of Linux support that launched the transition.
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