Linked by Ryan (aka Aurex) on Thu 10th Jun 2004 19:55 UTC
In the News Ever since Microsoft started publicly outing Linux with their "Get the Facts" campaign, I have seen numerous articles and studies about the TCO (total cost of ownership) of both products in a head to head manner. However, I have yet to see one article discuss the TCO for home users and small businesses. I have thought long and crunched many numbers to devise a conclusion to this years old debate and I think the results are obvious... Windows is way more expensive than Linux.
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Linux hardware support
by Dafe on Thu 10th Jun 2004 21:40 UTC

Well last time I installed XP(yesterday) i had to supply it with a driver disk for both my built-in promise fasttrack 376 and my wi-fi card (these hardware pieces are like 2 years old). FC2 came with built-in support for both....