Lou,
If you want to get a feel for linux, you could download the oralux live 
cd.  Booting from a live cd will not do anything to your existing hard 
drives.  Oralux is designed to bring you into the emacspeak environment.  
If you want more info, write me off list.  

Personally, I use linux 95% of the time.  The only time I use windows is 
to access some websites which are heavily java scripted. And for this I 
use jfw 6.0.  


73
Chris
On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 12:40:10AM -0500, Buddy Brannan wrote:
> I'm not Chris, but I've been using GNU/Linux now for six or seven
> years. It's great for text web browsing and Email, and just fun...the
> GUI, as I say, isn't there yet, and i haven't really been motivated to
> play with it much. There are definitely things that it doesn't do as
> easily as Windows does for us, and if you want user-friendly, well,
> it's not that either. Still, there's a lot to recommend it, esp. for
> server applications. And once you get it working the way you want, you
> don't have to touch it again, really. (Getting to that state, however,
> may be an exercise in frustration...and a lesson in patience.) 
> -- 
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