Nick Zentena wrote:
On Saturday 05 May 2007 21:54, Pueblo Native wrote:
Also,
the inexpensive nature of Linux compared to Windows only compares Linux
to "legitimate' versions of Windows, not to the pirated software that is
just as free (if technically illegal).
You miss the point. It's not cheap because you don't need to buy windows.
It's cheap because you don't need to upgrade the computer you already have.
Unless you build a white box nobody needs to pirate windows. Try buying a
prebuilt computer and not getting a new copy of windows installed with it.
The vast majority of computers come from HP,Dell,Levono etc. They almost all
come with windows. I bet many of us own multiple windows licenses.
I'm thinking of using an old computer to hold all my music files. Headless
connected to the network. How much hardware will this take? How much would it
take under windows? Even assuming I already owned all the windows software?
Nick
You can buy a computer from Fry's that does not have any OS on it, and
then put
SuSE or some other OS on the machine. I have one like that, running
SuSE, and it
works fine, even tho I'm not using that right this minute. Well, it
almost works fine.
It has printer problems, which I don't know how to address, but I don't
think that's the
machine, I think that's SuSE, unfortunately.
doug.
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