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30 things I've learned from using Linux ...Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes in Hardware 2.0 on Aug 7, 2007 2:38 AM
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I began My Linux Experience back at the end of February and over the past five months I've managed to spend a fair bit of time dabbling and experimenting with...[Read the rest]

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