Re: Critical Windows patch now available

Mary Z wrote: 
Well Mike I might take a peek at your Linux world.  I am having a new
computer built and I am thinking about putting a partition on the hard
drive for Linux.   I have a lot of music on my computer and after the
sony rootkit fiasco I thought it might be good to have a safer way to
rip music.  I was told the Ubutu version supports Mp3 is that correct?
I am getting a 250 gig hard drive so there should be plenty of room. I
am wondering if the dual boot will be convenient.  This will be a
locally built machine, someday I will take a class and learn to build
them myself.  I hate proprietary parts!!!!! -- MZ



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A lot of distributions are shying away from including mp3/dvd capability by default for fear of frivolous lawsuits. That said, you can always install the full versions of the same programs included with the linux ditribution simply by downloading them. Our wntire cd collection is kept on a linux file server with software RAID continuously backing up the drive.

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