Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary | ZDNet
Summary
Over the past four years, this experiment in Internet co-operative development has become the coolest alternative OS, especially among those who even regard Solaris with suspicion (dont even think about asking them about Windows). Merely mention some invented - but hideously obscure - Unix utility you once spotted on a Serbian FTP site, and the Linuxian will dash for the nearest browser in less time than it takes to fork a process. Microsoft has decided to have a First Birthday Party for Windows 95, and hired a film studio in Shepherds Bush for the occasion (the same place also has the odd rave and hosts the annual Sex Maniacs Ball, where people... but anyway, I digress). If anyone from Text 100 (Microsofts press relations company) is reading this: we have the negatives, the signed confessions and Petra... 4am: leave Troys, the infamous drinking establishment in Soho where the very, very silly go after parties finish. Type up diary on the train while staring out of window at rain and fields full of mad cows (well, youd be pretty upset if you had to stand out in the Devonian weather).