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thats the way to recruit folks to the linux community!...cripes! why don't you just go kick his dog while you're at it?

Perhaps you are right. I was a bit harsh on DeFault User. My apologies to him/her.

My main beef however is that having been down the linux road and earned my bars, I feel that anyone seriously considering using it should take the time to research it thoroughly before buying a shrink-wrapped Mandrake package at Best-Buy. It is a defacto clone of ATT Unix for all intents and purposes, and that OS was never intended for a mainstream audience. It was written by scientists for scientists, and it will always have that aspect as its heritage. All the hype about it "replacing" Windows is a red herring. Linux was made by geeks for geeks. And that is the way it should remain.

Hey Spacebar, I was just backing up my system with a Frys cheapy. For $199 I got a new 800MHz with 128 meg of sd-ram, everything but a cd-rw which I had and will install.
I intend to play around with it for a while in the least, but wondered if it could run any programs that run on windows like office 2000 or Coral Draw?

The funny thing is the $199 computer is all I need to do everything. Gee, I guess I am paying $239 with my re-writable drive.

Now I own other MS Operating Systems that I may install if Linux is too limiting.
As someone that kind of fell into a computer sale on a computer with your system, what can't it do compared to Windows OS at this time?