OpenSource technology is really cool. OpenSource is free via download, and also may be obtained for a small fee for someone to download it for you. Computer Gal's carries a pretty large assortment of opensource software for the people still on dial-up that can't download the large files. For those of you that don't know what opensource is, it is software created by programmers all over the globe to be distributed for free. For example open office is pretty close to Microsoft Office, yet it is free. These programmers all think software prices are just to hefty, so they get together, add code, and ideas to come up with some pretty cool alternatives to the big guys. There is also some pretty neat stuff that the big guys have not even thought of yet that has been released.
Some of my favorites are "Live Boot CD's". These are really cool! You take just about any computer with or without a hard drive and boot to the cd, which has a operating system interface. It appears as though you are working on an installed OS, but you are on the cd. You see a desktop, my programs, and all the other normal stuff, but it is all memory. You can surf the web, save files to another cd, usb, floppy or the hard disk if available. You can even retrieve files on your hard drive, if normally unbootable!
I will be covering several downloads that are available over the next few weeks, so make sure you check back, so you don't miss anything :)
See ya later gator...
Computer Gal
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