Date:         Fri, 22 Aug 2003 19:56:30 -0600
Reply-To:     tom ring <taring@TARING.ORG>
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From:         tom ring <taring@TARING.ORG>
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Subject:      Re: [WetWesties] RoadHaus - Virus Free
Comments: To: "Douglas L. Urner" <dlu@PATROSA.CANISHE.COM>
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As I thought that I said to the list before, I am available to anyone on the
list to help them move to a Linux desktop.  I'm betting there are several
others on the list that might step up, too.

The current desktops, there are several, are as easy to use as windows, and in
some cases easier, and generally quite a bit more responsive on the same
hardware.

I run windows in a window under linux, and it is, no bleep, faster than windows
native on the same box.  And reboots only take a few seconds when windows
crashes.  No, the program that fools windows into running under linux is not
free and only supports 95/98, but it's really cheap if you need it for that odd
bit for work that you can't run under linux.  I own 2 copies just for home use.
 Even fools Win98SE into sound and USB working perfectly, and they're still
accessible under linux.  And drive damage from virii is limited by the fact
that the windows "drive" isn't really a drive, it's a directory on a unix box.

And FreeBSD and friends are good OSs, too.

If this doesn't make it past our moderators, I don't blame them.  It is friday,
tho.  :)

tom

On 22 Aug 2003 at 10:50, Douglas L. Urner wrote:

> Or a Unix system.  I read my mail on a BSD system and *never* have virus
> problems.  Linux would work too.
>
> Doug


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