Article:		OS 9, Mine, All Mine
Subject:		Cheap Systems
Date:		2004-07-24 03:23:24
From:		bobbie
If I wanted to build a cheap reliable system I would choose Linux not Mac OS 9. New 2Ghz Intel boxes are pretty cheap because everyone wants the fastest processor and graphics card, but they run Linux (and Windows for that matter) pretty quickly. Linux, in the form of Fedora, can be downloaded for free or a version of SuSE bought for not too much money. Linux comes with lots of excellent software including some good open source databases and Open Office. I prefer Mac OS X enough to pay for it on 2 machines, but I think Linux is very hard to beat as a cheap, reliable system for a company with little money. It is now actully quite user friendly.

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• Cheap Systems
  2008-12-31 01:43:11  firstbassman [Reply | View]
  
  
  Unless you're the average person, like the seed catalog co. mentioned earlier. Then you would need to add the cost of hiring a consultant and/or full time IT person just to make your computers work.
  
  I love OS X for many things, but Mac OS beats it hands down in terms of user-friendliness, simplicity, and elegance.