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To: thecow who wrote (36694)	9/11/2003 7:47:44 AM
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They may not be the best alternatives available but using each is optional. Fortunately. Thanks for the Firebird tip, BTW, it's much faster than Mozilla. I plan on trying Linux at some point but isn't there a learning curve? Yes, but it can be spread, it isn't worse than keeping up with new virus definition files and firewall tweakings :-) Personally I find it more of an effort to deal with modern hardware. Many manufacturers of peripheral devices only produce proprietary drivers and release them for Windows, it often takes months or years until Linux catches up. I had a good Linux environment on my old desktop PC but when I switched to a notebook in December I stayed with the pre-installed XP. Only in August I've started to work on a dual-boot environment again. I am still dealing with some hardware issues and experiment with the latest 2.6 beta kernel to get ACPI running which is important to access notebook features like energy management, LCD configuration, sleep states. There's also an external FireWire hard disk waiting to be connected. I suggest the easiest way to give it a try is to download CD evaluation versions. In past month I have tried two of them: Knoppix knoppix.net SuSE Linux for i386 Live-Eval suse.com ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/live-eval-8.2/SuSE-8.2-LiveEval-i386-Int-RC2.iso You just download the ISO image (broadband recommended, about 600 MB each), burn it to CD and boot from it. Both variants are good at hardware detection and boot right into a desktop environment. If a router is available for DHCP then getting online is a matter of a couple of minutes.