Ask Agaric: What is Linux? (No, don't ask that)
http://www.ubuntu.net/
08:17
there-- the flavor of the month of Linux
andrea:
what is linux?
benjamin melançon 10:11
i'm going to pretend i didn't hear that
andrea:
sounds good
benjamin melançon
THE free software operating system
andrea
i still don't understand
benjamin melançon
Microsoft = Evil
Apple = Lesser Evil
Linux = Good
andrea
now you're speaking my language
it's good b/c it's free
benjamin melançon
free as in freedom
more than in price
source code is open for anyone to see and work on (like Drupal, the content management system we use to make web sites... which run on PHP, MySQL, and Apache which run on Linux ... and are all open source free software)
so no one can tell you that you can't use it (no recording industry of america suing you), or change it
wait, let's send you to the source:
