Sage wrote:How interesting. Always thought it was a Yorkshire expression?
Down here, we gave the world Diana Dors and Billie Piper!

We're returning Diana Dors, but keeping Billie Piper for a little while longer

Looking at the time posted of the one line replies (about one minute apart), I think it's safe to say it's either a bot, or more likely, a promoter changing the guest name after each entry. The grammer of the replies isn't wonderful either... I know, I'm a cynical bastard, it can't be helped

Sorry, should have made myself more clear. I was referring to the article by Richard Freeman: Winning the Linux Wars from the Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine Online that Paul Murphy referred to in the blog.

I agree with the blogger's sentiments of course

Interesting. The article referred to in the blog reads like a glossy, in-house thing. Written by microsoft for microsoft, self-serving congratulatory. Anyhow...

What is more interesting is reading the replies to the blog. Crazy, absolutely barmy

This is just my two cents worth, but.... Firstly, quickly looking through distrowatch, the vast majority of distributions have their name as part of the logo. I know that Puppy is unique, of course, but the casual viewer should be able to immediately associate the brand 'Puppy Linux' with the logo. ...

As to making a second conversion; she's interested, and I will hopefully be skilled enough in the usage of linux in general and puppy in particular by the time she returns to the Land Of Oz that I can convince her to embrace the penguin

Oh, and it's sure nice to meet y'all

Hello everybody! Since there isn't an introductions thread, I'll intro myself under Misc. Hello! Well, that seemed to go well. But in case you want something more... I'm a maths student at the University of Newcastle, Australia. I'm incredibly new to Linux, but am looking forward to learning somethi...