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Old 03-29-2009, 07:10 PM   #2307
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Buying a copy of Ubuntu - $0
Installing Ubuntu by yourself. - $Satisfying
Getting Wireless to work - F-Yea!

Not having to worry about malware, bots and viruses - Priceless.

BOb
Heh. Yeah.

Although, I did have to let the system download and install 280 updates before I was able to get Gnome to stabilize. At least, I think it has stabilized now. (Interesting. FF wants me to spell it "stabilise." I have nothing against British spelling, but it's not what I usually use for my work or studies, so I suppose I should find this parameter and change it....)

Still working out a few bits and pieces, anyway, but I'm much happier now. I really can't be spending half my time trying to figure out which bit of malware-du-jour I've got this time. Since the department balked at getting me a Mac laptop, this'll do. (There are a small number of applications I'm not confident will run under Ubuntu, but I do have a spare PC at work if I absolutely need to run one of them, and a desktop Mac at home.)
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