Here's a great documentary on the history of open source.

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Dell offers "Open-Source systems" One thing to note. The "Open-Source" operating system is FreeDOS. They don't or won't support any opensource operating systems that some one might actually use. Maybe there is a price break on those systems for them not having to buy a copy of XP. Any way I just thought I would note this, it made me laugh in side :) Dell's website since dell changes there site so frequently just go to Dell home and click on the open-source desktops.

so I thought I would start a place to discuss the ideah of creating a more friendly filesystem for linux. I personally dont see the need to have files named /etc /dev when they should more approperately be called dev and system-config or something. Any way we can start a thread here to bounce ideas of eachother!