Steve: Stevie wrote: > Thanx Lee! > > This is just more good evidence that FOSS makes the digital world go > round, despite the contrary beliefs of what some proprietary systems > users would like to have everyone believe.... Yes, I like to point things out like this to some of my "friends" that think i'm out of my mind insane! > Slider > Proud user of Linux Mint /KDE operating system > http://www.linuxmint.com/ > > > On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Lee Parmeter <geek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > <mailto:geek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > Social networking brought to you by GNU/Linux and open-source! > > > "The first thing that jumps out at you is that they’re almost all > based on > open-source software. For example, the operating systems behind Twitter, > LinkedIn, and MySpace are all Linux. Facebook uses F5 Big-IP, which is a > family of Linux-based appliances that also perform network management." > > Source article: > http://tinyurl.com/y9y46vz > > <http://practical-tech.com/operating-system/linux/how-social-networking-works/> > > -- > Lee Parmeter > http://www.bubbasgeek.com > > "When it comes to Vista: just say NO! If you're not ready for Linux, > buy a > MAC!" - Lee Parmeter > "God is not a republican or a democrat nor is His government a > democracy!" > - Lee Parmeter > > ______________________________________________________________________________ > Highland Lakes Linux User Group (HLLUG): http://www.hllug.org > HLLUG mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/hllug > > -- Lee Parmeter http://www.bubbasgeek.com "When it comes to Vista: just say NO! If you're not ready for Linux, buy a MAC!" - Lee Parmeter "God is not a republican or a democrat nor is His government a democracy!" - Lee Parmeter ______________________________________________________________________________ Highland Lakes Linux User Group (HLLUG): http://www.hllug.org HLLUG mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/hllug