I'm about to leave for the CMDA exibition to help out at the PLUG stall. I beleive its the least one can do to support a good cause. Its a bit (literally) ironical that the stall is positioned next to the Micro$oft stall. Hopefully we will be successfull in promoting the linux philosophy and the use of the GNU/Linux operating system. Linux - The choice of the GNU generation :-)

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