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Technology Stocks : Microsoft - The Evil empire -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: g_m10 who wrote (1279)	7/7/1998 9:10:00 PM
From: Rusty Johnson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1600

Do it. Run "UNIX" at home. Hard to believe the world hasn't caught on to a much better operating system than Bill's "great software". Having been spoiled by using AIX on an RS/6000 at work I knew there had to be a better mousetrap for the home market. There is. I've got Red Hat Linux 5.1 up and running on a second hard drive. Red Hat Linux is $29.95 from Linux Mall. linuxmall.com (if you order online by July 31st and refer to the offer code and price in their Linux Journal ad on page 39) Netscape Navigator/Communicator is included on the Red Hat CD. For a spreadsheet, word processor etc. I'm using Applix Office Suite. ($74.95 from LinuxMall.com) Check out some of these sites: redhat.com li.org linuxjournal.com linuxresources.com freeyellow.com Linux Mini-Box linuxmall.com cs.helsinki.fi Linus Torvalds' site applix.com You have a choice of at least three GUI's : XFree86 (I'm running) xfree86.org Metro-X metrolink.com KDE project (latest?) kde.org (look at these screenshots!) There you go. You've got a commercial flavor of Unix for an operating system, Netscape Navigator/Communicator and an Office Suite for a total of $104.90 that blows the doors off of Windows. I wouldn't short MSFT and INTC just yet. But any operating system good enough for supercomputers is good enough for my desktop. Downside: You have to schedule beer breaks because it doesn't crash. Warnings: Xboing is addictive and Xgammon cheats like a big dog. Best of luck.