[Am-info] Living without Windows

[Paul Rickard]

========== On 2001.10.29 11:55 AM, John Poltorak typed: ============

>
>Someone pointed out this page:-
>
>http://www.msboycott.com/thealt/alts/windows.shtml
>
>as a list of Windows alternatives.
>
>I feel quite miffed that my favourite OS - OS/2 or its new incarnation eCS 
>do not get a mention. OS/2 still has quite a following in the Anti-MS camp 
>and is probably one of the easiest OS's for a Windows user to pick up due 
>to the common ancestry, at least of the GUI, and I'd expect XP was 
>initially developed as OS/2 v3 many years ago.

    OS/2 isn't very suitable as a replacement for XP Home. check out the 
XP Professional and Windows Server pages on the same site. 
www.msboycott.com/thealt/alts/win_pro.shtml and 
www.msboycott.com/thealt/alts/win_server.shtml .



======== Paul Rickard, Editor of The Microsoft Boycott Campaign =======
--------------------------------[ Http://www.msboycott.com ]-----------

  "Microsoft is like this intellectual roach motel: big brains go in
   and you don't see anything come out."
       -Paul Saffo, Institute for the Future