Is linux free 4994
The most popular distribution today is shipped on cd for absolutely no cost, namely Ubuntu...
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jeff No I havent tried Debian myself, but others who did told me to go for MS Win2K. Ubuntu, I tried it. No mp3 support. No sound at all. No net...
100% of the people in my house use Linux on their desktops, and all the servers here run Linux. To be honest, though, there are only two machines here, one of which runs Windows-XP Home once in a while when I need to run Quicken or TurboTax. I consider both machines to be desktops, but the big one is connected directly to the Internet, and it runs an iptables firewall that protects itself and the other machine. It also runs a nameserver, a mail transfer agent, nfs server, and IBM's DB2 UDB dbms servers, and an ssh server and client. (The other machine also runs an nfs server and ssh server and client.)
My ISP has a battery of machines that run FreeBSD Unix on their servers. I believe they run one server with some Windows server on it for the benefit of some clients who cannot hook up any other way. At least they did 5 years ago. I do not know if they still find this to be necessary.
No, but given the choice, I would run Windows 2000 instead of XP. In fact, I have 2 Windows machines at home (along with 4...
I do not thing Red Hat and SuSE are playing politics. They are trying to make enough money to cover the costs of their service, and to provide a decent rate of return to their shareholders. This is America shareholders must get a return on their investments or they will not participate. And without investment, companies do not succeed. Red Hat, and for all I know SuSE, are not parasites. They employ developers at their expense who make significant contributions to the Linux and GNU community.
I do not get this. I have no trouble at all coding in C++ on GNU-Linux systems. In fact, I had nothing but trouble trying to get the Visual C++ development system in Windows 95 to work properly. It was not even compatable with Microsoft Office Professional at the time, using incompatable libraries so I had to reinstall Visuall C++ whenever I wanted to program, and then reinstall Microsoft Office Professional when I wanted to use that. I could understand (but not forgive) Microsoft for being incompatible with other vendors' products, but with their own?
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