Chad Smith wrote:
Thomas,
He was not being serious. "LInux distros" are full operating systems,
like
Windows. There are plenty of free Linux distros (which is short for
distributions) online. Some can be run off a CD - but most require
you to
install them onto your hard drive. You would lose all the data on your
This is completely *untrue*. Most people keep a Windows partition and a
Linux partition.
Most use a Windows partition for data just for that purpose.
computer. None of your current programs would work on it - and you'd
have
Most all of the programs have equivalents in Linux. They generally come
with it free of charge.
to learn how to use Linux to get it to work. It is not a program that
runs
on Windows - it's its own operating system.
Most people really don't know how to do much with Windows, either.
regards,
Richard.
However, if you want to completely redo your computer - most Linux
distros
do come with Instant Messengers.
On 8/9/06, "Thomas Müller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
link to the one with an IM ?
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Datum: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 15:41:37 +1000
Von: "Justin Fitzgibbon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
An: [email protected]
Betreff: RE: [discuss] DO YOU HAVE A CALENDAR FEATUTE SIMILAR TO
MICROSOFT
> Actually there already are versions of OO.o with everything included
> such as email/IM client etc, except they are usually called Linux
> distros.
>
> The extent of the integration is a different matter, but OO.o is
already
> better off than say Word which will happily spindle fold and mutilate
> any excel spreadsheet you manage to open.
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