New Laptop
I purchased a new laptop computer for $699. For a Celeron, it works fine as an office suite I can take on the road.
It came pre-installed with Microsoft Vista Home Basic which worked fine. With one small tweak, it worked even better - I downloaded Fedora 8 as a live CD, booted up and it auto detected everything, including the sound, so I hit install. Now I’m running linux on the laptop.
Now I have a full featured office suite, with openoffice.org which can read and write Microsoft Word files, and can save documents as PDF files. The perfect solution. The price - FREE.
But it gets even better. I had to do some network trouble shooting on a different network, so I plugged the laptop in to the network and now I have a full set of network utilities at my disposal - sometimes the command line is just faster.
I really am enjoying using the laptop. It’s just like windows but with the power of unix when you need it.
