This second version of the Linux Client Migration Cookbook is intended to help the Open Desktop community continue to move forward — to enable more people to grow the community by leveraging the amazing work happening right now in Open Desktop development around the world. Twilight ran past him and began a frantic search for the book herself. She was a purple blur moving between every bookshelf and every compartment in every room in the house, but her desperate search left her empty hoofed.
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