Nero for Linux
Oh, yeah!
Man, Linux is just getting a massive boost this week! Yahoooooo! According to this announcement on Nero’s webiste, they’re now offering Nero for Linux. If you don’t understand how cool that is, then you’ve either never used Linux or Nero or both. This is the coolest thing since sliced bread, at least in the Linux world. And, if you’re already a Nero Ultra user, they’re GIVING Nero for Linux to you for FREE! How cool is that?!
Jeez, I remember ten or twelve years ago when this plucky, little OS was something that hard-core geeks were into and no one in the business world had even heard of it before. Now, major corporations are supporting it and some even live or die by how well Linux fares in the marketplace. Back then, the idea that anyone would give away an entire operating system for free was just, well, unheard of. No one thought it would amount to much. No one but us hard core geeks. And, now, here we are. Linux is a player in the Big Game and doing better every day.
We’ve come a long way, baby!
I’m pretty excited about this too. Everytime an established company helps open the competiton up, I get a little charge. I also read somewhere while poking around that linspire has just released a new version called five-0 with a totally reworked smooth running GUI. I love stuff like this. The time I was experimenting with lindows (linspire), my friend and I timed a full install and it only took 3 minutes! While it doesn’t have all the same functionality as Red Hat, for a home user it is convienent, easy to use and a great intro to Linux. Plus, when users are comfortable working on a particular OS at home, it makes it more possible to implement the same OS in an office environment. Which is, in my humble opinion, how Microsoft got SO rooted in the industry.
Comment by MightyKong — 3/18/2005 @ 12:12 am