Can anyone please offer advice on what PC set-up I need to run...
Red Hat
Mandrake
Windows XP - I am sorry about this but I need it for comparison.
It's for a business using email, word processing, spreadsheets and the like.
What I'd appreciate is some "real world" information - the downs as well as the ups, well not the downs of MS thank you but anything I really ought to consider.
A client may consider open source software (I stress may). I don't think they will go for Linux but as OpenOffice.org is free and StarOffice is very cheap they are hesitating over it.
"Hesitating" means they can't think of a reason not to but are spineless shits who can't make decisions - but that's only my opinion.
I would like to feed them the cost difference between OSS and MS so they will doubt the wisdom of going the MS ("Did we need it?") and maybe next time around...
Thanks in advance and I apologise again for the XP question.
zooloo
PS. I don't actually do computer stuff, I do websites but people think website = PC and they do ask me about their PC's (Usually the printer is on pause).
As I go about my business I am sowing OSS seeds and leading by example.
