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Yikes. Blue text on black background is awfully hard to read.

In general, the grammar needs a lot of work. I take it the author is not fluent in English? Perhaps asking somebody who is fluent to edit the text might be worthwhile.

"Unix was used mostly as the operating system for big computers in the past."

No, Unix was used mostly as the OS for minicomputers and workstations. Unix did run on a few big computers, but that was the exception.

Toshiba laptop display probs
I just installed Fedora Core 4 on a Toshiba Portege 7140 laptop. All is reasonably well; however, the display has been problematic since installation: 1. When I first boot into text mode my display is...

"Unix was created by programmers at Bell Laboratories in 1960"

No, it was 1968 plus 1-1970.

"Unix had most of its popularity before PC came into existence."

Not really. Unix hit the "big time" with vendors like Sun and HP shipping servers and workstations in the 80's after the PC came into existence.

"Torvalds who was unsatisfied that Unix could be ran on his PC decided to rewrite Unix from scratch."

Huh?

"The # 1 reason for Linux being the top choice."

"Eliminating the PC freezing up or slowing down due to memory leaks." Every sentence needs a verb. :)

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