I gave up on MS about a year ago and made the leap to Linux. That was one smart move on my part as it can do every thing that Windows does but for free.

I have an old Toshiba Laptop that came with Win 98 so I added 256 meg mem and installed Linux on it and it runs faster than 98 ever thought of. So don't abandon those 4 year old laptops give em a heart transplant with Linux.

I don't reckon I am smart enough to use anything but this dummy proof windows..I have a hard enough time
using it

Naw, Linux isn't THAT hard to figure out. It's a fair jump from using DOS, but if you can find your way around a command line it's OK. My only beef with Linux is that 99% of the games that I play and a few of the apps WON'T run under Linux. QuakeGL is only so much fun after a while.

BTW Yabu, we are having a little get-together at my house the last weekend of March if you guys are interested. Just call (or email or something)

I wish I was a computer geek. I would use Linux too.

Linux? He was one of the "Peanuts" characters, no?

All the games I play run fairly well under Linux. Everything from Id, like Doom 3, Quake 4, Wolfenstein, etc all have native versions. The old Half-Life used to work pretty well under Wine, too, unless I'm not mistaken. I know Warcraft III does. Just make sure [pet peeve alert] you're not using your sound card beforehand, 'cause Linux still hasn't figured out the whole multichannel sound card thing. Such lameassitude.

Transmeta's Cedega also seems to still be rocking along. The old WineX product was really good at running Windows games, so it might be worth a peek. I just wish they'd make something for the Mac. Not that I'm going to be playing Half-Life 2 on my G4, but still...

I have a copy of Xandros Linux that I downloaded a while back. My boss wants to move over to that and get off Microsoft. It's just that the office move intervened and we haven't had time to do anything more with it.

Up until lately, even with Wine, we couldn't get our terminal emulators to run correctly under Linux... otherwise we would have moved years ago. But the terminal emulator reigns supreme... no emulator, no business. So we waited. Now all I need is extra time to mess about with it. :-)

Just out of curiosity, what kind of terminal emulator are you talking about, Teresa? Windows Terminal Server, IBM 3270, or something else? I can't imagine there's a terminal out there that doesn't have a linux version somewhere.

You're right, the Colonel is the essence of the soul, and his Fried chicken is some damned good stuff.
So's his slaw, and his tater's and gravy. I don't like his sporks though. They're weird.

I think he counts his chickens with a new Mac that dual boots XP.