[H-GEN] Linux on CNN!

David Starkoff dbs at humbug.org.au
Wed Sep 23 07:07:15 EDT 1998


Well, CNN Interactive[1] at least.

Linux, or at least a story on Linux, managed to score a link from CNN's
main page.  It's a column (I don't think it can be classed as a story, or
any other form of *real* journalism[2]), but it's pretty nifty.

  http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9809/22/linuxlove.idg/

Sample, although not entirely representative, quote:

``Here are four things you can do while you wait for 100 percent Java
support in Internet Explorer: Find Jimmy Hoffa; find out if it is true
that when you dig straight through the earth you end up in China; 
reconstruct every scene from Gone with the Wind using pipe cleaner people;
and devise a new language made up of words containing only the letters Q,
X, and Z.  This tip comes to you courtesy of New Zealander Keith Uhlmann. 
I have only one thing to say to your suggestions, Keith. `Qxzzqqx.' ''

David. 

[1] http://cnn.com/
[2] Hi Nooks! :-)
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