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To: goldworldnet who wrote (97324)	7/10/2017 12:52:02 PM
From: steve harris	5 Recommendations Recommended By Don Green goldworldnet Gottfried Ken Adams philv Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110645

I'm here to help anyone with it if I can. It runs Firefox and Thunderbird, and with any of the office programs including Libreoffice, it does everything I need to do. There are several distributions that are stripped and give new life to old computers that choke on bloated Windows. linux.com Another advantage Linux has is that it will boot and happily run from any external device unlike Windows.

To: goldworldnet who wrote (97324)	7/10/2017 1:44:43 PM
From: Eric L	1 Recommendation Recommended By Don Green Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110645

Linux Sleeps << Linux is a sleeping giant that is free. >> The Linux kernel on manifold OS distros (other than Google's Android/Chroome) for general purpose computing has been a sleeping giant for a long time and today has less than 1% global OS share on computing devices. Linux has a bright future in the 5G IoT world as an embedded smart OS and on specialized systems but it's very questionable to me whether it will see significant growth as a consumer or prosumer computing OS. The sleeping giant turned out to be (Linux kernel based) Android which passed Windows OS share earlier this year on computing devices globally and is still growing share. We'll likely see as much or more growth in Chrome (as opposed to other Linux distros) which has caught up with the various Linux distros in North America. Just my opinion of course. - Eric L. -