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To: Lost1 who wrote (49305)	1/27/2006 6:58:08 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110655

Rant Warning: Along time ago, in a place far far away (Canada), I bought Windows 98SE. I liked it, I loved it, and went on to buy thousands and thousands of dollars of software to run on that operating system. In July 05, I upgraded to XP, and spent thousands of dollars upgrading software to run on XP as the most of the old software was not compatible. Now Vista comes along, will I have to pay thousands of dollars to upgrade my software to run properly on that OS?? Nope, because I will keep XP Pro until it is completely obsolete and no longer serviced by Microsoft. I applaud people who switch operating systems, I just may do that one day, and I probably will have to spend thousands of dollars on software upgrades to be compatible with that OS. What a bunch of bull chit. I feel better now. PS Lost1, are you still doing trick (circling golf ball) golf shots? <g>

To: Lost1 who wrote (49305)	1/27/2006 7:17:04 PM
From: Elsewhere	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110655

For learning / evaluation purposes you needn't purchase Suse. If you have broadband just download the free Suse Linux 10.0 eval version, 4.5 GB. novell.com Burn the image on a DVD and boot from it. It won't change any content on the hard disk of the PC it boots from and after the next boot you'll have your normal Win desktop again. Last summer I compared four Linux versions for the desktop (Ubuntu, Knoppix, Debian, Suse). Suse was also my favorite. On a family server I use Debian Sarge. us.debian.org