Linux for a nonprofit org to be easy to switch 5225

On Wednesday 19 October 2005 05:52, Adam McCarthy stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.misc...:

This requirement would be met with 99% of the distributions. However, the word "free" in Free Software stands for freedom, not necessarily for "gratis".

Many distributions are available commercially, but this is because they typically bundle software that is "free for personal use" but may not be freely distributed, such as proprietary nVidia or ATI drivers.

Still, if money really *is* an issue, you could opt for the gratis downloadable version and fetch the drivers from nVidia's site yourself.

The same applies to the Java Virtual Machine from Sun Microsystems. You can fetch it off of their website.

Are you sure you want to be using Gnu-Linux? If you want something that looks like Windows, then you can use ehm... Windows. ;-) Or you can wait for Freedows to ever be completed, of course. ;-)

(Yes, and there is Linspire, which is a Gnu-Linux that looks and feels just like Windows, which is quite perverse. ;-) Linspire is not gratis either, by the way.)

My apologies for this remark, but Gnu-Linux is not a replacement for multi-user platform.

Gnu-Linux can do all that Windows does and much more, but it will do things differently, and expects the user to show a bit more of responsibility. It will do whatever you tell it to do, but you have to take that literally.

Then I don't see the problem? You should be used to Gnu-Linux then by now...

-- With kind regards,

*Aragorn* (Registered GNU-Linux user #223157)