Comments on: Demand compensation from Microsoft http://helpmerick.com/demand-compensation-from-microsoft.htm Easy to understand computer help Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:54:10 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://helpmerick.com/demand-compensation-from-microsoft.htm/comment-page-#comment-2800 Anonymous Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://helpmerick.com/wordpr/?p=1717#comment-2800 I'll add to this, find a good high end pentium III about 1 gig speed, add ram to 512MB or better. Get a 80 gig hard drive. Then add Linux Mint Cassandra, it does audio and video streaming out of the box. It is a suped up version of Ubuntu 7.04, it picks up where Ubuntu leaves off yet it has the same easy style and installation is very easy. As far as wireless goes, please check E-Bay as there are linux compatible wireless devices. There is a closeout on E-Bay for a outboard wireless that connects to USB. The linux compatible version cost about $1.00 more than the windows/mac only version. No one needs to be tied to Vista, Xp machines are still available and full featured Windows 2000 machines are selling on E-Bay for less than $100 used. Take this one step further, with Ubuntu one can easily install on the same hard drive as Windows. After installing Ubuntu, there is the grub on start up where one can choose between both operating systems. Those that like Ubuntu, will love Linux Mint Cassandra. With the release of Ubuntu/Kubuntu within the last few years, we are no longer tied to either Windows or Mac. Speaking of Mac, did you know it was possible to install Ubuntu 7.04 on a Mac? I did and it definately works better than the old OS 9.0. It is a new world now, the choice is now yours. http://ubuntuforums.org/ is a great place to start. I’ll add to this, find a good high end pentium III about 1 gig speed, add ram to 512MB or better. Get a 80 gig hard drive. Then add Linux Mint Cassandra, it does audio and video streaming out of the box. It is a suped up version of Ubuntu 7.04, it picks up where Ubuntu leaves off yet it has the same easy style and installation is very easy.

As far as wireless goes, please check E-Bay as there are linux compatible wireless devices. There is a closeout on E-Bay for a outboard wireless that connects to USB. The linux compatible version cost about $1.00 more than the windows/mac only version. No one needs to be tied to Vista, Xp machines are still available and full featured Windows 2000 machines are selling on E-Bay for less than $100 used.

Take this one step further, with Ubuntu one can easily install on the same hard drive as Windows. After installing Ubuntu, there is the grub on start up where one can choose between both operating systems. Those that like Ubuntu, will love Linux Mint Cassandra. With the release of Ubuntu/Kubuntu within the last few years, we are no longer tied to either Windows or Mac. Speaking of Mac, did you know it was possible to install Ubuntu 7.04 on a Mac? I did and it definately works better than the old OS 9.0. It is a new world now, the choice is now yours.

http://ubuntuforums.org/ is a great place to start.

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