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[Tormod]

Well, it is mostly cosmology (and physics and astronomy) because that's what the Hypography forums were all about until Alex started this group just before Christmas. I guess it takes a while for each group to get rolling.

Frankly, I don't know much about Microsoft's .NET initiative, apart from the fact that it is a 30 megabyte install which I haven't cared to do on my PC.

I would like to use Linux but so far none of the apps I use regularly are available for it. I actually paid for a license for Mandrake Linux just because I couldn't be bothered to install everything myself. It worked fine on an old PC which is cool, but I had absolutely no use for it.

Here in Norway there is a volunteer initiativ group who have made something they call "school linux". They want all the schools in my city to start using it, since it's free. But the city council has an agreement with Microsoft that they can only use Windows on their PCs.

I think that is one example of where Linux should REALLY be taken into use, because the schools are extremely short of funding and if kids can learn how to use a word processor, surf the web, do maths etc I see absolutely no reason why they should be forced to use Microsoft products.

I expect to see both Microsoft and Linux live for a long while still. And there is a third OS up there, too: Macintosh OSX, which is using a UNIX core. I really like OSX, and use a Mac at work and a PC at home.

Just my 2c,

Tormod