On 11 Feb 2005, at 20:20, STYMA, ROBERT E (ROBERT) wrote:
Dear Fedora Advocates, My brother in law will be returning from Iraq in another couple of months and one of the things I am doing for him is to build him a computer. He is not technically adept and his computer activity is pretty much limited to looking at his email on yahoo and a little web surfing. Sometimes he prints an email or two.
I am vacillating on building an FC3 machine or a W2k machine.
Windows 2000 is obsolete. Windows XP is obsolete. Windows XP Service Pack 2 is insecure. Longhorn won't be obsolete, but it's a few years away. Linux is free, is being updated constantly, is secure and has a great community behind.
If your brother in law is going to surf the Web, listen to music and write mails I would recommend, with no doubt, Linux.
