Attention Freeware and Shareware Users and computer users frustrated with Microsoft Windows®Use Freeware and Shareware? Frustrated with Microsoft Windows® security problems? Ever pick up disks from a computer show that are shareware or freeware and find they don't work very well? Or you download a trial version of a program for Windows and it crashes? Then you might want to try freeware or shareware on a Linux system. 9 out of 10 freeware programs from a major distributor of Linux actually run and work well for most users. In fact, some freeware programs actually work better than their for-sale counterparts. One instance is CD burning. I can not control a Windows CD burning program as much as I can with a Linux CD Burning program. And if my system can not run a Graphic User Interface, I can burn CDs with a command-line program! As a matter of fact, all the the GUI based CD burning programs on linux use command-line programs to do the actual burning. For more information on obtaining a major label linux distribution, the following websites are available...[ Debian.org | Linspire.com | Mandriva.com | Slackware.com | Xandros.com | Fedora Red Hat | Ubuntu ]
LinuxCentral.com Want to try Linux out and not install it? You can from self-contained bootable CDs. You can download an iso image, burn it using an ISO image burning program (such as "Disk Utility" on Mac OS X, Nero Burning ROM on MS-Windows, or K3B on Linux), and then boot the CD (preferably on a PC, but some may work on a Mac Intel system), and you have a temporary Linux system. And when you reboot your system and remove the CD, you computer boots normally without modifacation to the currently installed OS. The following websites have self-contained Linux systems on one bootable CD. Mandriva One - http://www.mandriva.com/en/download/free Knoppix - http://www.knoppix.net Ubuntu - http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download (The Ubuntu installer CD is bootable as a stand-alone system, or it can be installed along with additional packages from Ubuntu's Online system.) |
Free No Cost office Suite!
Instead of Microsoft Office®, use OpenOffice
(OpenOffice is always available at no cost, and free downloads and CDs are available from the website) - http://www.OpenOffice.org
And I truly believe, OpenOffice is more compatible with Microsoft Office than Microsoft Works!
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Get the Firefox web browser and Thunderbird e-mail client
http://www.mozilla.org
Click on the logos to download Firefox and Thunderbird.
The GIMP is just as effective as Adobe Photoshop.
Adobe Photoshop usually retails for $600.00 and runs on only two different computer systems. The GIMP is available for FREE, and runs on many different computer systems.
http://www.gimp.org
Click on the logo to download the Gimp
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