I just wanted to let all of you know how much I appreciate your effort in developing, contributing and caring for this project. I'm currently using FC3 on two legacy boxes (AMD 450 & Intel 466) in my home office and I see no reason to own MS software.
I'm not bashing here, just stating the facts as I see them. My computers may be slow but I choose not to play the constant hardware upgrade game that most in the MS world play due to a bloated OS requiring more & more system resources. Linux affords me that choice. The ROI these two computers have generated would be hard to measure.
Being a small business owner, Linux makes sense!
Thank you,
Steve Croteau Serpent Cymbals SerpentCymbals@comcast.net
On 6/29/05, Steve Croteau stevecroteau@comcast.net wrote:
I'm not bashing here, just stating the facts as I see them. My computers may be slow but I choose not to play the constant hardware upgrade game that most in the MS world play due to a bloated OS requiring more & more system resources. Linux affords me that choice. The ROI these two computers have generated would be hard to measure.
You're absolutely right and I'm glad to see posts like this on the list! My server here at home is a dual Celeron 333 that's OC'ed to 550, 512MB of RAM and has been plugging away without incident for 6 years now. I think it's great that through the use of Linux, one is able to get new machine performance from less than new machines. I always tempted by the shiney upgrade but I can't justify the cost when the machine I have more than meets my needs for performance.
Welcome to the community! I hope your stay here continues to be as plesant as it has been so far!
I agree with you 110%, Steve! When I first started with Linux, I tried several of the distros and I honestly feel Fedora is the best! I would also like to add my "thank you" to the list...
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 21:30 -0700, Steve Croteau wrote:
I just wanted to let all of you know how much I appreciate your effort in developing, contributing and caring for this project. I'm currently using FC3 on two legacy boxes (AMD 450 & Intel 466) in my home office and I see no reason to own MS software.
I'm not bashing here, just stating the facts as I see them. My computers may be slow but I choose not to play the constant hardware upgrade game that most in the MS world play due to a bloated OS requiring more & more system resources. Linux affords me that choice. The ROI these two computers have generated would be hard to measure.
Being a small business owner, Linux makes sense!
Thank you,
Steve Croteau Serpent Cymbals SerpentCymbals@comcast.net
On Thursday 30 Jun 2005 05:30, Steve Croteau wrote:
I just wanted to let all of you know how much I appreciate your effort in developing, contributing and caring for this project. I'm currently using FC3 on two legacy boxes (AMD 450 & Intel 466) in my home office and I see no reason to own MS software.
I'm not bashing here, just stating the facts as I see them. My computers may be slow but I choose not to play the constant hardware upgrade game that most in the MS world play due to a bloated OS requiring more & more system resources. Linux affords me that choice. The ROI these two computers have generated would be hard to measure.
Being a small business owner, Linux makes sense!
:-)
It's not just about money, it's about freedom, choice, quality etc.
You now have the choice to upgrade and control your own IT decisions. With MS, that all gets dictated for you.
Welcome to a better world.
On 6/30/05, Steve Croteau stevecroteau@comcast.net wrote: [...]
I'm not bashing here, just stating the facts as I see them. My computers may be slow but I choose not to play the constant hardware upgrade game that most in the MS world play due to a bloated OS requiring more & more system resources. Linux affords me that choice. The ROI these two computers have generated would be hard to measure.
Well I chose to play that game. I have 4pcs. Athlon64-3200, AthlonXP 2800, AthlonXP 2500 & Athlon 1400 in a semi-retired state. I current run a mixture of RH9, FC2-4, ArkLinux, CentOS 4.1 and FreeBSD 5-STABLE. I plan on using FBSD and a KDE centric dist. No offense, but I have been compiling KDE since 1.0beta3. I prefer compiling KDE to using RPMs simply because I follow KDE from SVN, formerly CVS. So as you can see, there are many sides to the story.
N.Emile...
Amen brother....
Matt.
2005/6/30, Steve Croteau stevecroteau@comcast.net:
I just wanted to let all of you know how much I appreciate your effort in developing, contributing and caring for this project. I'm currently using FC3 on two legacy boxes (AMD 450 & Intel 466) in my home office and I see no reason to own MS software.
I'm not bashing here, just stating the facts as I see them. My computers may be slow but I choose not to play the constant hardware upgrade game that most in the MS world play due to a bloated OS requiring more & more system resources. Linux affords me that choice. The ROI these two computers have generated would be hard to measure.
Being a small business owner, Linux makes sense!
Thank you,
Steve Croteau Serpent Cymbals SerpentCymbals@comcast.net
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