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<DIV>This is reply to a old topic which I raised when I just started using LINUX.</DIV>
<DIV>This is to put to the record that I am still using Linux (feels good to have survived)</DIV>
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<DIV>I have learnt a lot which I can use for rest of my life unlike what has happened to</DIV>
<DIV>my learnings in M$ most of my applications on DOS 6.2 are not at all running well</DIV>
<DIV>on XP and on Vista I will have to organize the funeral for those. Also I have to </DIV>
<DIV>redo the coding of those in VB. (If Vb is not supported in 2009 then something new)</DIV>
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<DIV>Above is tip of iceberg which I have seen. I am learning more and finding that</DIV>
<DIV>OpenSource is just how world should be.</DIV>
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<DIV>My PI M/c 133MHz is also working on Linux while it was anyway a junk in the M$</DIV>
<DIV>world since last 6yrs.</DIV>
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<DIV>> > > >> > > <BR>Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:32:31 +0530<BR>From: "YAGNESH N DESAI" <<A href="mailto:ynd@hzw.ltindia.com">ynd@hzw.ltindia.com</A>><BR>Subject: How can one say Linux is $-free . . . ?<BR>To: <<A href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</A>><BR>Message-ID: <<A href="mailto:s540e3a4.012@hzw.hzw.lnthed.com">s540e3a4.012@hzw.hzw.lnthed.com</A>><BR>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"</DIV>
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<DIV>Friends;<BR> <BR>I just shifted to Linux and have tried on laptop read a lot about the<BR>meaning of Free. But just was wondering is it really $-free . . . ?<BR> <BR>I have invested 40hrs and still counting on getting and installing Linux and <BR>trying to make it work. (Though it was fun but its not yet working to my full<BR>satisfaction and I am at it). <BR> <BR>While above time does not includes my time participating in such discussions<BR>and preparing pages on my experience.<BR> <BR>Also after all this efforts I am not able to compilemany of the softwares in ubuntu I tried to compile Mplayer from its official site. . . <BR>Many of the downloads compilations are in .rpm package which means do I need<BR>an RedHat based Linux too on my laptop?</DIV>
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<DIV> <BR>I know I am putting a cat among the pigeons.<BR> <BR>Replies awaited . . . <BR> <BR>Yagnesh<BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>