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Wow, she was lucky someone installed Mandriva for her instead of Ubuntu. That way she just needed one OS instead of dual boot Ubuntu/windows. I'm a little biased because that's how I got off Windows before there was an Ubuntu, when Mandriva was Mandrake, wireless networking was barely known and 100Mb/s was the exciting new networking standard.

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Because open source operates computer hardware, any application could beg the question weather there could be an open source program that could be used. Just as cirtain equations telescope in math, there are probably areas of development that encapsulate other industries or applications. Virtualization has this quality as the concequence of methods use to animate art or apply real images to animated control to modle a variety of applications can be used for a variety of perposes. Such modeling has value in crash analysis, manufacturing, design, medicine, education and a variety of current and potential applications. Virtualization encapsulates any overlaping application. For example video production and video games. For this reason I would think it less important to persure any type of video game supremicy and work on a platform made first of effective tools and then next more intuitive usabiliy. It should begin with an outline of desired features perhaps using OOS as a start if only to refrence prefered development platforms, and then apply each feature as a project. The value of OOS is that any prior art that compleats the implementation graph can be used untill a better alternitive is developed. By separating policy, implementation can be hardware optimised. When an effective product is available it will creat multiple levels of intrinsic demand from industy untill it is a prefered platform for vidio game development.

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An example of an industrial application would be a video game of playing house. This would identify various managment skills and may incorporate going to the store. By using an online comunity members of the game mite want to learn how to opperate the cash regester. Such applications mite include learning a generic bar code for a type of retailer. This would create intrinsic demand as one who enjoys and learns from the game may require less on the job training adding value to their employer. If an industry were atracted to such passive job training they mite want to participate by working with a development comunity to incorporate there managment/opperations system to skew potential employment in there favor. They mite go so far as to want to attach such software as employment training to there web site if controling copywrited and tradmarked images were a concern. Persons playing store mite win a job application when demonstrating proficiency. Another use is industrial production virtuale schools teaching shop classes, as well ochestra that, not limited by normal intruments could allow a music student to sing with some geese or birds, cows could sing bass and pigs could sing alto. Once these virtuale environments were available they could be interconected to create virtual economies or provide a usfull transitional interface for hazardous machine operation or machine learning instruction.

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