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| # Update every single piece of software on my system with a single
| action...
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| # Update nearly everything on my computer without a reboot...
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| # Keep my system secure without software that consumes my system
resources,
| requires my time, and frequently nags me...
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| # Run an entire operating system for free without pirating software,
| and without breaking the law...
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| # Take my settings with me where ever I go...
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| # Run Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.5, 6.0, and 7.0 on the same desktop...
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| # Understand everything that is going on in my computer...
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| # Customize every aspect of my desktop...
|
| # Benefit from competition between projects for each system on my
| computer...
|
| # Run thousands of great pieces of software that only run on Linux...
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| # Learn about, support, and appreciate the value of free software...
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http://dmartin.org/weblog/things-i-can-do-in-linux-that-i-cant-do-on-windows
To which I must add:
* Run up to 20 concurrent desktops and cut/paste across them all
* enjoy concurrent multi-processing
* complete and total control over all network tools, files, and
functions, in real time.
* total and absolute control of all security features, options, with no
outside control imposed upon the users.
* transportability accross hardware. Remove a hard drive from a DFI or
ASUS system, and plug it into a totally different system, without any
're-registration' or necessity to re-install the entire system.
* Ease of access to mirrors with images of the OS, which can be booted
live from the Internet, remotely, from a LiveCDrom, around the world!
http://www.babytux.org/articles/howto/how2netknoppix.php
http://vamosproject.org/InternetBoot
I do have 9,984 more reasons... See them for your self in any run of any
LiveCDrom from http://livecdlist.com or http://distrowatch.com
* Running Mepis 64 bit Linux, installed, with an initial 1900 FREE
applications and suites, loaded on the drive in a 9 minute install.
* Linux 64bit runs great on 768Mb of RAM, though 256 MB RAM would do it
nicely
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