{"id":547666,"date":"2006-01-06T14:55:49","date_gmt":"2006-01-06T14:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/547666-online-quiz-helps-linux-newbies.html"},"modified":"2006-01-06T14:55:49","modified_gmt":"2006-01-06T14:55:49","slug":"online-quiz-helps-linux-newbies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/547666-online-quiz-helps-linux-newbies.html","title":{"rendered":"Online quiz helps Linux newbies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Norwegian open-source consultancy Zegenie Studios has created an online quiz that helps new users decide which version of Linux to install. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Zegenie Studios says its quiz is attracting up to 40,000 hits a day, mainly from home users or company employees seeking advice on which Linux distribution best meets their needs, reports News.Com. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The quiz asks questions such as whether participants plan to use wireless devices, how they rate their technical skills and whether they are installing the operating system on a desktop or portable computer. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Once the quiz is complete, the application recommends one particular Linux distribution and lists a number of alternative distributions, along with the criteria they failed on. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><i>INet-Bridge<\/i> <\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norwegian open-source consultancy Zegenie Studios has created an online quiz that helps new users decide which version of Linux to install.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}