Keith (Southend) wrote:
Brian Wakem wrote:


You could install linux (no blue screens) and use a journalled filesystem
like ext3 (default on most installs) which will avoid those issues and
does
not require defragging.



If I knew what I was doing better, I'd go along with you on this one.
Would all my Windows software work with it, Word, Excel etc and other
windows applications.

Most m$ documents open quite happily in Open Office / Staroffice / Word
Perfect all of which are available for stuffed penguin users.

They live in c:\documents & settings\username\username's documents and
can be pulled off to cd from there.

Les


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