Patrick’s Blog(2)

Microsoft has announced here the end of support for Windows 98, Windows Me, and Windows XP Service Pack 1. According to several articles on the Net, like this one from Zdnet, this will boost Desktop Linux. It remains to be seen if consumers will flock to WinXP or will decide to try Linux. For those that have finally had enough of the trojans, malware, virii and security leaks in Microsoft products there are a number of great free Linux distributions like Red Hat’s Fedora Core, Novell’s OpenSUSE and Ubuntu. Try them out and if you need help, just ask in the abundance of mailing lists, forums or your local Linux User Group (LUG).