I am not a Ford geek, I am an automobile driver but Ford is horrible.....and
more and more people are looking for alternatives.
At least a superb Honda is out. It is called ACCORD.
You can get it here:
www.honda.com
Come on now, aren't you getting tired of bashing Vista each and every day?
"Tiberius" <J.T@K> wrote in message
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> Hello... I am NOT a linux Geek, I am a windows user. But vista is
> horrible... and more and more people are looking for alternatives.
>
> Many of you are frustrated with vista, I know... but there are new
> alternatives coming out, and they are free too.
>
> At last, a superb Linux is out. Its called PCLINUXOS 2007
> and its the most user friendly linux that I have found up to date. It puts
> ubuntu linux to shame. I never liked ubuntu much anyway.
>
> get it here http://www.pclinuxos.com/
>
> It worked with a 3d desktop for me after I went to the icon "configure
> your computer" on the "taskbar" and then turned on the 3d effects with an
> icon it has there.
>
> And I must note that these 3d effects work on a card that Vista does not
> think is good enough for it! LOL
>
> You can see some of the effects on youtube HERE
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHT4T...linfx%2Ecom%2F
>
> The effects are NOT important to me, what was important was that it could
> play and display various media without hassle... and it did!
>
> I played various media without a problem, and without me needing to
> install anything else! The cd is only 700 mb yet
> it has a multitude of free applications to do anything you want...
>
> Now think about that.. vista needs 10gb to install and it has only a few
> applications included. This linux has a huge collection of programs
> preinstalled.
>
> I played DVDs, Avi videos, mpgs, mp3, photoshop psd's with gimp, word
> documents, PDFs... even flash was preinstalled on firefox. It also
> includes the latest Thunderbird email and newsreader 2.0 (something that
> the latest ubuntu lacks).
>
> I also was able to use the preinstalled remote desktop client to control
> my other computer that is running XP.
>
> This is a linux that is easy to use! Also you can try it out before you
> install it by running it from the cd as a live cd, so no harm will be done
> to your hard drive. Also there is a very nice option to load the whole CD
> into the RAM if you have 1gb + ram, and that makes the OS lightning
> fast... This option is on the first screen when you boot the pc with the
> cd inside. I did that and I was impressed.
>
> PClinuxOS 2007 is totally free. like most other linux's.
>
> Another use for this linux is to use it as a "rescue disk" if for example
> your Windows computer does not start, you pop in the pclinuxos cd, the
> computer starts, you can see ALL your files from the hard disks,
> and you can copy them to a USB flash drive, via the network, write them to
> a dvd, or save them to an external drive.
>
> The flash drives and externals are detected automatically, and it has a
> built in burner program! lol it cant get any easier!
>
> It had used the previous version of PCLinuxOS, but this is even better....
>
> At last a linux has been created that is easy.... have fun!