Abandon Ship!
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Paul C. Brown, Editor in Chief
The folks over at Tux Radar [1] posed the following thought-provoking question: "Do you ever see yourself switching back to Windows or Mac OS X (or any other OS ) and leaving Linux behind?"
I have a bit of an issue with the fact that this question assumes you came to Linux from some other OS. Okay, so in my case, I cut my teeth on a PDP 8 and 11 at the beginning of the 1980s. Both computers were running Unix. I then owned a Commodore 64 at home (the PDPs were industrial machines) running something called KERNAL and Commodore BASIC, created by Microsoft of all people.
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