Thursday, December 16, 2004

Mod-Blog's Patented Unusual Gift Ideas: Free Operating Systems

Broke this Christmas? Have a mother or grandmother who owns an ancient computer than can barely access the internet, and on which Windows crashes every 5 minutes? Have a CD burner handy? What about considering installing one of the Free Operating systems out there that can speed up and network-enable your special someone? FreeOS.Com is a good place to stop by to learn about such Operating Systems as Linux, FreeBSD, ReactOS, and others that are 100% Open Source and Free Software and yet are mature enough to entrust to a computer-phobe.

Just be sure to explain to them that they won't be able to play that 20 year old game of Backgammon they bought for their IBM AT machine.

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