On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 07:54:34 +0700, Bruce In Bangkok
wrote:

One caveat. Most of the current Linux distributions seem to pride
themselves on being "pure" open source applications and generally do
not do such things as play MP3 music, which is a proprietary encoding.
Of course it is possible to download and install additions to the
existing applications that will play MP3 files but the initial Linux
probably won't do it.

All well and good but what is the advantage in trying to make Linux
look like Windows when it is so easy to dual boot into a true Windows
environment? All this nonsense about Windows being unrelaible is
just that. I have Windows machines that stay up for 6 months or more
without a single crash or reboot. Resource usage is also a non-issue
when you can get quad-core machines with 4 GB of memory and 1 TB hard
disks for very reasonable prices.