'Linux vs Windows in Costa Rica' Technology

Linux vs Windows in Costa Rica

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He played a video that showed us how the President's office in Costa Rica had converted from Linux to Windows and saved money and increased security by doing so. He told us how Costa Rica had developed a vital proprietary software industry, and warned that Linux and free software wouldn't allow this kind of income production.

Reply #1 missy from kutztown, PA (Contact Member) -

Interesting, thanks for sharing! I recently converted to Linux and it's really great. I always assumed it'd be really confusing and hard so i was too afraid to give it a shot and stuck to the troublesome Windows for so long. Wish I did it earlier!

Reply #2 John from Los Angeles (Contact Member) -

I switched to FreeBSD from windows for my workstation almost a year ago! Wow! What a great change. I am booting to deskstop in about 10 seconds... vs many minutes for windows to finish.

There are too many ways to list why it is better. The only troubles I've had is with multimedia stuff... so I was using my laptop with windows as a glorified media player... then I gota a Nokia 770 and haven't turned on my (windows) laptop in months.

Reply #3 missy from kutztown, PA (Contact Member) -

I have never heard of FreeBSD before. I'll have to look that up via Google. Sounds like it's something great due to your postive comments!

Reply #4 John from Los Angeles (Contact Member) -

Here's the link to their home page. Similar in many ways to Linux... and will run many (all) linux programs.

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