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The Perfect Desktop – Debian Etch (Debian 4.0)

Written By
FT
Falko Timme
May 2, 2007

[ Thanks to Falko
Timme
for this link. ]

“With the release of Microsoft’s new Windows operating system
(Vista), more and more people are looking for alternatives to
Windows for various reasons. In this tutorial I will show people
who are willing to switch to Linux how they can set up a Linux
desktop (Debian Etch in this article) that fully replaces their
Windows desktop, i.e. that has all software that people need to do
the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are
clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that runs
also on older hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes
free of charge…”

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Falko Timme

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