Microsoft Licensing

[TheMonkey]

But you need to spend 15 hours to find vendor drivers for Linux then spend few more days trying to find out wtf they wont compile on your system...

I haven't had to do that for about 6 years. Obscure hardware normally screws you but we're talking servers here.

Surprisingly, everything works fine on my windows-specific toshiba M50!

[milanbenes]

if you install linux, what desktop and word processor and spreadsheet software do you have a choice of ?

Milan.

[Fleetwood]

hth

[madhippy]

if you install linux, what desktop and word processor and spreadsheet software do you have a choice of ?

Milan.

some stuff ...

there's openoffice which personally I use at home ... like the fact that the doc format is xml etc. and can export to PDF ...

koffice

gnumeric

abiword

[TheMonkey]

some stuff ...

there's openoffice which personally I use at home ... like the fact that the doc format is xml etc. and can export to PDF ...

koffice

gnumeric

abiword

Yes I use OpenOffice - works wonderfully. Talks MS Office formats perfectly as well. Here's what the guts of an openoffice document look like (they are all zip files!):



Note the images are actually NOT in the XML which makes the whole format really easy to generate and process.

[AlfredJPruffock]

Is it just me or would it be easier to install Linux and then do wtf you like?

This statment is as shocking to me as Chico confirming that the Iraq war was a mistake, I remember when Dp would defend MS against the upstart LINUX with great gusto... The Times they are a Changing ....

[DimPrawn]

I might vote Labour next.

[Lucifer Box]

I might vote Labour next.

Why not move to Birmingham? You'll be voting Labour no matter which party you put your cross against.