In case you were waiting, the new Windows (Vista) from Microsoft will not come out until 2007 .........
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=1362
Home | In case you were waiting, the new Windows (Vista) from Microsoft will not come out until 2007 .........
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=1362
Switch to Linux instead. It's free!
http://www.ubuntu.com/
Download a Life-CD-.iso, burn to CD, boot and toy around. No changes to your installation. No viruses anymore.
what about bi-lingual support? I live in Hebrew land ........
so it also means:Originally Posted by Roland
*no more macromedia programs
*no more corel draw or photoshop
*no more c&c Red Alert
*and more no mores
Use Wine or VM or something similar if you really have to. We have Lotus Notes at work and that's how we run it on Linux.
BTW the GUI graphics hardware requirements for Vista are hellacious. Expect that if you want to turn on all of the features you will have to replace your graphics card with something very close to a high end gamers card. Which means that most people will turn off most of the features just like you can make XP look like W2K and save lots of resources.
Yes, we also use Linux as server for various IT and ERP applications. It saves a lot of money.
However, we don't use Linux in personal desktops.....
For PCs there is absolutely nothing better then Windows.
Mil - stands for the countless MILlions of reasons not to work.
For PCs there is absolutely nothing other than Windows.
there I fixed it for you.
We have some number of Linux desktops, probably in the 10-20,000 range. Very hard to tell since our healthcheck probes don't seek out non Windows desktop machines. No need to. Admittedly it's not for everyone and there a few problems particularly in wireless networking, VPNs & groupware. And not all the notebook machines easily support it especially when trying to invoke suspend/hibernation mode and some of the weirder USB and PCMCIA adapters like security dongles and hardware encryption add ons.
Most of it is RHEL based though there's lots of SuSE and Debian and some hardcore black tshirt types with Slackware. We're also working with xfld and Knoppix but so far performance suuuuuuucckkkkkkS! We'll probably rebuild those images to run off USB thumbdrives and see if that helps.
But seriously the price point for mini Macs is close enough so that if you want a great and powerful Unix core running on cheap hardware then buy a mini Mac with OSX (BSD) and have at it. Tiger is a rocksolid BSD which itself is a lot more robust than Linux.
MAC OSX has its own issues with Hebrew. Specifically when browsing certain Hebrew sites.
can i use my linux as web server? host etc?
Good luck setting it up
You definetly can - there is probably some software that lets you do it.
Mil - stands for the countless MILlions of reasons not to work.
Sure most distros come with Apache webserver
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