On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 19:21 +0000, Malcolm Cadman wrote: > I am not sure how free Linux really is ... all those downloads from the > internet, all the compiling time if you are in to that side of it, all > the magazines to buy, all the applications to acquire ...
Where has Demon been hiding your email for the last month? It seems you need a new ISP! I use the Fedora distribution of Linux. I buy a new version every year on DVD at about £8 including postage: this contains about 9GB of software. On top of that, I've downloaded a specialised HTML editor, Basic, and a couple of utilities. The big programs come in a package which installs automatically and compiling the utilities is done in a couple of minutes. I've never bought a Linux magazine, but I have bought two books (less than I bought for the QL). I call that a bargain. _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
