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To: Golden Eagle
I had a choice. New laptop came with Vista Business. Geez what a piece of crap vista is.

But I do have this Sun software running on the openSuSE I installed on the system: Virtual Box, that runs Win2K just fine. So on the rare occasion I need to run a windows app, I don't have to dual boot. Just click and open a window for windows. And the nice thing is, it's sandboxed. The way windows should be run.

But hey, the article is about HP and the UK. HP has a lot to make up for from the Carly years, and the UK, land of my ancestors, went all Orwellian about the time their native son said they would. So independence, is not of their strong suits.

22 posted on 02/08/2009 5:13:18 PM PST by AFreeBird
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To: AFreeBird

If people want to waste their time reinstalling Windows every year, they can be my guest.

I’ve used Linux primarily for 12 years, and am satisfied with my choice.


23 posted on 02/08/2009 5:18:32 PM PST by B Knotts (Worst economy since the Third Punic War)
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To: AFreeBird
Sun software running on the openSuSE

Enjoy them while you can, Sun and Novell, two companies who are dying trying to make money off giving their software away. But since the utopian vision is everyone running the same free crap it won't really matter I suppose.

24 posted on 02/08/2009 5:27:40 PM PST by Golden Eagle (In God We Trust)
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