Re: Recommended Reading

Tech-Archive recommends: Repair Windows Errors & Optimize Windows Performance

NoStop wrote:
On Friday 24 March 2006 10:51 am, nubian had this to say in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

Just Say No to Microsoft: How to Ditch Microsoft and Why It's Not as
Hard as You Think
author Tony Bove
pages 243
publisher No Starch Press
rating 7
reviewer Ben Rothke
ISBN 159327064X
summary Open source alternatives to Microsoft operating systems and
applications
http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/28/1544245

OK, so when are you going to make the switch?




This is not my computer, so on this machine it is not my choice to make. On my machines, I run both Windows and Fedora Core, have been for years.

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