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Newsday, Melville, N.Y., Lou Dolinar Column.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, April, 2004
By Lou Dolinar, Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Apr. 4--Much as I like the for-fee Xandros version of Linux, longtime readers know I'm basically a cheapskate. And if you are, too, you'll enjoy our parting shot at Linux, namely, how to get one of the free distributions.
Free means free, no kidding. Pretty much everything you get with commercial distributions is included, for example, word processor, spreadsheet, Web browsers, e-mail. About the only thing you don't get is: 1. support; and 2. some of the emulation programs we talked about last week that allow you to run Windows programs.
There are a ton of free releases of Linux; just take a look at www.distrowatch.com. As much as I'd like to say I've tried...
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