{"id":152,"date":"2010-01-03T11:26:39","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T05:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themidnightsun.wordpress.com\/?p=152"},"modified":"2010-01-03T11:26:39","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T05:56:39","slug":"tremendous-growth-of-gnulinux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lguruprasad.in\/blog\/2010\/01\/03\/tremendous-growth-of-gnulinux\/","title":{"rendered":"Tremendous growth of GNU\/Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been GNU\/Linux user for the past couple of years and when I look back to see how much it has progressed, I can only gape in awe. I use Ubuntu in my laptop and Debian elsewhere and am familiar with these distros ( I badly want to try RedHat-based distros too! ), still when I came across this page http:\/\/bit.ly\/6DUUBk which shows the wide range of nice software tools available for Ubuntu 9.10, I was surprised I didn&#8217;t know about most of the stuff though I have used Ubuntu for a long time, that too now I was using the latest Ubuntu Karmic Koala. I realized yet again of how little I knew though I often thought too much of myself.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever software is there for the Windows platform, there are abundant equivalents that are at least as good in FLOSS and GNU\/Linux world. There are also software for doing things which are impossible in a Windows environment which is GNU ecosystem&#8217;s niche. So am really glad that I got into FLOSS ecosystem and without doubt am benefiting hugely from its tremendous growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been GNU\/Linux user for the past couple of years and when I look back to see how much it has progressed, I can only gape in awe. I use Ubuntu in my laptop and Debian elsewhere and am familiar with these distros ( I badly want to try RedHat-based distros too! ), still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[77,249,259],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foss","category-gnulinux","tag-floss","tag-gnulinux","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lguruprasad.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lguruprasad.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lguruprasad.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lguruprasad.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lguruprasad.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lguruprasad.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lguruprasad.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lguruprasad.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lguruprasad.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}