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A teacher has threatened to call the police after finding students using Linux in her classroom. She went mad in a letter to the HeliOS Project threatening to report it to the police for distributing illegal software. “I along with many others tried Linux during college and I assure you, the claims you made are grossly over-stated.”

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I’ve been using Mint for over a year and have no complaints with it thus far. I highly recommend it.
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Linux Mint, while relatively new, has gained a lot of fans from the linux community, and is now the third most popular on DistroWatch, slowly crunching on openSUSE lead. It brings something a lot of distro have tried: simplicity, functionality, and of course looks. Let’s see what makes Linux Mint fresh and if it’s worth switching from Ubuntu.

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Linux will continue to be Linux no matter how much money Microsoft spends or what Windows 7 does. Linux isn’t going away unless the entire Linux community decides to disperse and stop developing and growing. It’s not dependent on profit margins…or even marketing.

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Here are 12 tips, tricks, tweaks and techniques to make you say “I didn’t know you could do that in Linux.” Sure, not every one may be your cup of tea but here are 12 items to help you have the most positive Linux experience you can and to show why Linux is a superior operating system to other alternatives.

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It’s only taken too many yeard for this. ‘Bout time Broadcom. I’ve been using an Atheros chipset for a couple years so I don’t really need those drivers now. Thanks though really.

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Linux has had a hate/hate relationship with Broadcom. Linux users need Broadcom Wi-Fi drivers. Broadcom does a lousy job of supporting Linux. Now, a combined effort from Dell, Canonical, and Broadcom has lead to a new Linux driver for many popular Broadcom chipsets.

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