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MIT Technology Review: An Alternative to Windows
Aug 12, 2004, 16 :45 UTC (11 Talkback[s]) (6859 reads)

(Other stories by Wade Roush)

"Will it always be a Microsoft Windows world? That’s what I hoped to find out when I sliced open the box containing the new PC I’d ordered from WalMart.com. It had a respectable 1.6-gigahertz processor, a serviceable 40-gigabyte hard drive, a CD-ROM drive, an MP3 player, and enough other software to keep me occupied for life, though supporting it all was a barely adequate 128 megabytes of RAM. Okay, I knew this chunky black box wouldn’t be the sexiest PC on my block. But that was fine, considering its paltry $278 price tag--and that I’d really ordered it for what it didn’t have: any Microsoft software whatsoever. Rather than Windows and Office, it came with Linspire 4.5, one of the many commercial versions of the open-source Linux operating system that are now available, and a link to a website where I could download a variety of open-source applications..."

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>Will it always be a Microsoft Windows w ...   As far as I know...   
Ian MacGregor
Aug 12, 2004, 17:50:41
 
I decided that I could not honorably sub ...   This magazine routinely praises patents   
Charles Hixson
Aug 12, 2004, 19:15:19
 
> >Will it always be a Microsoft Windows ...   Re: As far as I know...   
orbert
Aug 12, 2004, 19:29:23
 
> > >Will it always be a Microsoft Windo ...   Re: Re: As far as I know...   
Kevin
Aug 12, 2004, 20:56:44
 
Special to "orbert":As far as I am conce ...   Re:Re: As far as I know...   
Ursus Orribilus
Aug 12, 2004, 22:14:08
 
> > >Will it always be a Microsoft Windo ...   Re: Re: As far as I know...   
Steve S
Aug 12, 2004, 22:38:03
 
> > >Will it always be a Microsoft Windo ...   Re: Re: As far as I know...   
f
Aug 12, 2004, 23:00:21
 
Why is it that linuts always...Why is it ...   microsoft fudsters, ugh   
Joel
Aug 12, 2004, 23:04:14
 
> I think we are heading to an OS agnost ...   Re: Re: Re: As far as I know...   
ac
Aug 13, 2004, 16:06:38
 
> > >Will it always be a Microsoft Windo ...   Re: Re: As far as I know...   
ccw
Aug 13, 2004, 17:15:57
 
first off, well said.Now the only thing  ...   I agree 'cept for one thing   
Dirtdog (was nofibn)
Aug 14, 2004, 15:51:07
 
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