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billwg

Did he say that was the ONLY PC he owned? Most of us Linux users are able to use machines that are "obsolete" by Microsoft standards, as secondary Linux workstations, as Linux "desktop servers" (accessed through VNC or X11), I gave 6 older machines at home. I finally let go of 4 400 MHZ machines. They still worked as Linux machines, and performed quite nicely, but I'm moving and I need the cubic feet for my soon-to-be wife's things.

My plan is to pare it down to 2 laptops, 4 desktop-servers, each at over 2 Ghz, and 2 with AMD-64 processors. I'll use Xen on 2 of the boxes and VMWare on the other 2.

I'll keep Windows on one of the laptops, but that one also has 3 VMWare images.

I just wish Windows would stop fighting for all the memory all the time. It's funny, the machine with Linux as the primary OS and Windows as the secondary is almost twice as fast with both running as the Windows primary with the Linux secondary.

Linux uses unneeded storage as drive buffers, but is more than happy to give memory over to a VM.

Meanwhile, I have 12 Windows licenses that I don't need anymore, along with the 6 Windows licence stickers I scraped off my OEM licensed machines once I reformatted the drives and installed Linux on them.

After all, we don't want someone pirating my transferable license. I paid for it (as part of the price of the machine). Why should I give the licenses to the Recycler?