On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:06:20 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

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.

Not sure what you are responding to but many people are reluctant to,
or aren't familiar, with installing Linux and mistakenly believe that
installing the new system automatically destroys the old. I was merely
pointing out that it isn't necessarily so.

No one is trying to make Linux look like Windows... don't know where
that comment came from. Nor, the "nonsense about Windows not being
reliable" as neither the OP nor myself discussed that.

I have been listening to similar comments to your "Resource usage is
also a non-issue" for something like 20 years now. I can remember when
a BIG mainframe had an astounding 64K of core memory. Now video cards
have more then that. In a couple of years your amazing quad-4 with
its miserly 4 G memory and your TB of disk is going to be referred to
as a "legacy machine" and another guy will be talking about his 64
core with the multi-TB of ram.

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)