Terence Warby wrote:
> David B Teague wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the words of encouragement, Web Kracked and Terrence. I
>> will need to fetch drivers and invest in a video card, but that's
>> easy enough.
>>
>> I am presently running a version of XP that does not require the OS
>> to call home. i.e. I can avoid activation, and I truly will hate to
>> give that up, but XP support at the University will go away in the
>> next couple of years, so I'll either have to switch to some version
>> of Linux or go to W-7.
>>
>> With Warmest Regards
>> David Teague
>>
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> Although I have put Windows 7 on the laptop my wife bought me because
> it couldn't be any worse than Vista, on my desk top I'm using Ubuntu
> Linux. Of the two, Windows or Linux I think that you would be better
> off trying Ubuntu or some other flavour of Linux that might be more
> suited to your requirements when support for XP finally expires.
Heck, I'm still running desktops with windows 98 on them - if it aint
broke...
I run Ubuntu, but my wife uses tons of Win programs and I don't want to
fuss with getting them all to work under wine so I am looking at windows
for her current Vista machine. Yeah, I know. . .
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Bill Drescher
william {at} TechServSys {dot} com
