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> I assume I'm the newest member in this mailing list. Good morning to all.
>
hello dear convert! praise the Lord that you have seen the light! hehehe.
> Frankly, I'm still on Windows 98, my Linux OS soon to be installed,
> hopefully, without any hitches -- I got hit by a virus recently that
> totally wreaked havoc on my work sked (I am a graphic designer by trade, a
> deadline is the bottom line) and the guy who restored my system told me
> that the Linux OS is almost hack- and virus-free. How true is this and what
> are the odds, if any?
>
hack-free and virus-free i leave others to comment on that. however, i
would like to comment on graphics designing. some people who work here
with me do graphics design too. for image editing we use gimp. which is
beautiful...i can even say at some point it is better than photoshoppe. i
personally use the ImageMagick suite of applications very often to convert
from one format to another or make little mpeg cartoons. i do not really
know much about video editing. but you can do a search in freshmeat. i
suppose there are apps that you can find there.
> I'm quite illiterate with tech stuff so please bear with me. My PC has 2
> physical hard drives; 17GB and 8GB. It's the 8GB I'll be converting to
> Linux and retain Windows at the other drive. Someone stop me if I'm about
> to do something wrong.
>
go ahead! install linux!
good luck.
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