Maybe one day I will get around to learning that system (or find an expert who can explain the jargon.) Anyone here qualify as an unidentified drip under pressure (expert)? rweyer wrote: >Linux Alternative to Windows---Spreading >Source: United Press International > >TEL AVIV, Israel (United Press International via COMTEX) -- It's free, it >replaces Microsoft's Windows operating system and several Microsoft programs, >and Knoppix users, though mostly in Israel, need not read Hebrew. > >Knoppix presents the user with a friendly desktop full of icons similar in >presentation to a Macintosh screen and supports several languages, including >English and Russian as well as Hebrew. > >The operating system based on the open-code Linux takes up 600 megabytes but >not necessarily on a hard drive. Its creator, German engineer Klaus Knopper, >built it to be used directly from a CD rom. It includes its own Internet >browser, an MP3 player and a suite of applications from word processor to >spread sheet. > >Knoppix also includes something not to be found in Windows products, a >facility allowing a computer to be clustered with many others over broadband >data lines, to add up to a no-cost super computer, maarivintl.com reported >Sunday. > >see >http://www.knoppix.com/ > > -- Regards, John Durham <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig> ICQ number 112663246 Fax/Phone 64 4 5286786 Award winning web site at http://modecideas.com?sig Order my latest e-book at http://modecideas.com/dmaxhits.htm?sig PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied. Regards, John Durham (list moderator) <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig> Freelists login at //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi List archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/pchelpers PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied.