Is Ubuntu Linux for You, Too?
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| Why would I want to install Ubuntu -- or any form of Linux?
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| Linux is free -- in many senses of the word. It costs nothing, and it's
| also free of corporate control and restrictions on how you can use your
| media. That recently prompted digital-rights advocate Cory Doctorow to
| switch from Apple Computer software to Ubuntu. He was concerned, for
| example, about Apple's proprietary software locking up his personal
| data. "Every day, I add thousands of e-mails to my e-mail repository,"
| he said. "And for so long as Mail.app is using proprietary stores, that's
| an ever-growing liability."
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| Compared to Windows, Linux is also relatively free of malware attacks.
| For example, security company Panda Software records about 300 pieces
| of malware targeting Linux systems, versus more than 100,000 for
| Windows machines.
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