I don’t have much to say today so here goes:
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Just what Hillary needs; a push from a puke!
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I hate to do it, but I suppose I am going to have to shell out nearly
$200 for Windows7 Premium; my WinXP is becoming harder to manage each
day. Except for one needed program for Carolyn’s business, I could get
by with Win7 Home but I needs Premium’s virtual machine to run the old
software. Actually, if not for needing the one bookkeeping program
(Quickbooks), I could happily get by with Ubuntu, Fedora, or one of the
other Linux distros which are all as good as windows and free of charge.
I don’t need anti-virus software slowing down my machine with Linux.
Nothing would please me more than to tell Microsoft to go to hell. Win7
is good, but MS could still get very rich by selling it at $50 a pop.
Linux does have a good accounting program, but it is old fashioned
double-entry which can be hard to learn if you don’t know accounting
basics to begin with and it does not import Windows Quickbooks files.
I have Ubuntu Linux on a partition on this PC, but usually boot to XP
because I use the bookkeeping program nearly everyday. I took XP off of
my laptop and run only Ubuntu on it. My Droid X phone uses Google’s
Android OS which is a version of Linux. Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla
Chrome browsers were originally built for use on Linux. Linux has all
but replaced Microsoft in the server market which means that most pages
you visit on the net reside on hard drives controlled by Linux. One
thing that Linux doesn’t have which Microsoft is lousy with is marketing
money, thus they remain a niche OS.
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This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
~ Will Rogers
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Have a good day, my friends!
Thursday, September 08, 2011
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2 comments:
All of us non techies are afraid to use Linux. It has the reputation of being for geeks only. You make it sound easy; except, software seems to be oriented to windows or apple. Well, what do I know?
Another thing that Linux doesn't have that Microsoft is lousy with seems to be virus, trojans, etc. But I have never run Linux, wish I knew how. Too inept and busy to learn it.
I wonder which Redmond WA. company started that rumor? ;-)
Mac does well and it is based on the same Unix platform as Linux.
Linux has software that covers everything and much of it is better than what Windows has to offer and is not as bloated for the most part. Thousands of software titles and all are free. Here is a very small selection:
http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/best-free-software-linux.htm
Linux is vulnerable to root kits, but it does have built-in protection from them. It also has a kernel based firewall which is better than any Win add-on.
If you want to play with Linux, you can do it without putting on your PC. Download and burn a fun little
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ image file to a cd or dvd, stick it in your pc, boot the pc and follow instructions to run from cd. It will add a few small reference files to your HD, but will remove them when you exit the program.
It is something to try when the garden is shutdown for winter.
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