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DriverHeaven: Open Source--More of a Reality Than Many People Realize
Feb 8, 2005, 04 :00 UTC (3 Talkback[s]) (7117 reads)

(Other stories by Panagiotis Vagiakos)

"Right now I am writing this document on OpenOffice.org Writer, while browsing the Internet with Mozilla Firefox and checking my emails with Thunderbird. Friends of mine can reach me through Gaim, and if I need to see photos or retouch images, The Gimp is my best friend. I know your first thought is that I am working with Linux and all I want to do is show-off my cool open source applications. Actually, that would be far from the truth. I am working under Windows XP.

"You probably noticed that between these applications that I mentioned, not one of them belongs to good old Microsoft. If someone came to me a few years back, and told me that I would be working with so many high-quality open source applications, I'd probably dismiss him as a Linux fanboy..."

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Here's a collection of opensource (a ...   opensource for Windows   
MikeFM
Feb 8, 2005, 07:39:04
 
You seem to be on the right road. You ju ...   Good, just one more thing required   
greatscot
Feb 8, 2005, 19:53:17
 
... Install Linux and you'll have a  ...   Better yet...   
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