Image via Wikipedia http://www.linux.com/news/software/ applications/8261-note-to-new-linux-users-no-antivirus-needed -needed     (Just click here to read the good news). If it's quieter on my sites at the moment, there are various reasons. The above link is one of them! Apart from fractured ribs, making creativity and typing suffer(!), I have also made the plunge into the world of "LINUX operating systems " and I've now got to figure it out! Learn, learn, learn! Fed up with Microsoft and Windows prices and errors and permanent updates, I did it! Of course - I kept one PC working on WIN XP - just in case, but I hope I will be able to relegate it to the absolute necessary! An immediate advantage of Linux , apart from the fact that it has everything Windows has but for FREE, is in the above link - no anti-virus programmes playing silly games with me and my equipment. Image by michperu via Flickr Sure -you've got to be careful, as usual, with what...

click on the title for the whole article. Thank you - no support, only 63% of us want to keep XP and the vast, VAST majority of 23% want Vista! Windows want - and need - more money! I'll have to find out how to make an Operating System, it's a blank cheque! It's like selling you a TV running on electricity, as normal, and then sending you a letter to say that as of now, it will only run on GAS...! If I can install "Ubuntu"/"Linux" free of charge - I will, and up, up, up Windows and Microsoft. Why can't Google bring out an operating system ....payable or not, I'd take it...! http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2240034/windows-xp-support-runs