Almost by stealth, the Linux desktop is here

One of my dirty little secrets is that I have never successfully installed Linux on anything. I’ve tried many times over the years, because I bought into the idea that it could revitalize old computers. I’d cobble together a 486 processor, some no-name disk controller, a clonky old hard disk, a VGA card from the Boer War, and off we’d go. My Linux experience terminated shortly thereafter with an incomprehensible error message concerning IRQ 9, lost interrupts or goblins in the bidirectional bus buffers.” Read the commentary at ZDNews.

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