Open source

XIV.6 November + December 2007
Page: 38
Digital Citation

Usability in open source


Authors:
Görkem Çetin, Mehmet Göktürk

"When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other." :Chinese proverb Desktop-based open source operating systems, particularly Linux, have come a long way since the introduction of Linux 0.10 in 1991 and the first Linux distributions in early 1992. Linus Torvalds, the founder of Linux, started to market the usability of Linux version 0.10 when he wiped his data by autodialing to hard disk, overwriting the operating system with dial strings. While such usage scenarios are far from reality in today's world, open source projects…




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