On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Adrian Mageanu <[email protected]> wrote: > Example given is this article in The Press > http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/gadgets/2269025/Renew-your-old-PC > > that offers Linux as a viable alternative for desktops and home use. > > I don't personally know the author of the article, but he has my tick of > approval for what he wrote there. > > Noting that he is the same author who wrote the previously discussed > articles, I welcome the change of tone and touch of objectivity.
His advice is suspect ... "find an old 98 disk and install" is terrible. It's unlikely that the licensing would be valid, and Win98 is totally unsupported, and supports only outdated and insecure versions of IE. A pretty irresponsible comment. He avoids the comparison of Linux with XP/Vista, by implying that it is only worth considering if you have outdated hardware. A head-to-head comparison would be more interesting, from the perspective of improving the performance of your existing machine by switching OS. On the plus side, he has targetted pretty much the correct distributions for the hardware in question. So that's good :-) -jim
