Linux systems

TITAN LEV - Linux Operating System for Windows Users
$24.99
TITAN LEV enables users to migrate files, folders, contacts, calendars, tasks and notes from Windows machines. It provides the best Windows compatibility including familiar User Interface, file and printers sharing and supporting Windows files format. It offers a built-in security package with automatic virus scan, scheduled backup and personal firewall. A software management layer is intended for controlling updates and pushing new applications to the users. Affordy has a knowledge base and support infrastructure for all applications. Users buying TITAN LEV need five minutes customization using a special quick setup utility and they are immediately productive. TITAN LEV is the best Windows alternative for users with common requirements at unbeatable price. Listed price includes 3 months of premium technical support. The package is available to be downloaded (unlock key provided) with free shipping or on DVD with $5.95 shipping to US addresses and $9.95 shipping worldwide.

Ubuntu Linux Complete Edition 8.04
$19.99
I've watched with interest at the O/S's development. I've also had a lot of frustration trying to get many of the functions to work especially multi-media.

After upgrading to Ubuntu 9.04 I think, I hope and I have my fingers crossed that Linux (Ubuntu) has finally crossed over to an O/S that almost anyone can install on there computer almost as easy as MicroSuck's Windoze O/S (anyone who has tried to install MSuck O/S knows it can be a real pain).

Every device I plugged in including a USB floppy drive, a Seagate external hard drive, two mice, and a HP all-in-one printer that is only a few months old were immediately detected and the modules loaded perfectly. The only thing that didn't come off perfectly was the graphics acceleration software I needed for my NVidea 8800 GT graphics card. I had an SLI set-up, but evidently the Xorg config file couldn't cope with the two cards and X11 kept crashing until I pulled one of them and then the graphics acceleration module that the Ubuntu developers put together worked perfectly.

The time it takes Ubuntu to start up makes MSuck O/S look like a snail. Same with the speed of opening programs 'cause there isn't all those so called extensions dragging down the system resources.

The only complaint I have now, and the only thing I can't do that I could with MSuck is watch instant movies on netflix.com, but this isn't Linux's (Ubuntu) fault. It's netflix.com and I let them know about it.

The circle is complete . . . Linux is ready for prime time.

Oh ya . . . the complaint about only one CD in this edition . . . Debian's complete iso collection is 4 4.8Gb DVD's. Ya can install Ubuntu in 20 minutes, then use the add/remove program utility to download any other program you want from the almost unlimited collection of FREE packages on their repositories, thousands of programs that MicroSuck would scam you hundreds of dollars for. Ubuntu also instantly reminds you of security updates.

Linux (Ubuntu) based on Unix which was designed specifically with security in mind makes all the Linux distro's extremely virus and malware resistant, and some computer technically savy users simply do not use a firewall, anti-virus or malware program. I don't recommend this but there are free solutions to this too like Avast! anti-virus, one of the most highly rated on the market, for free home use with Linux. And there are free firewalls too.

Look . . . if you are a newbie to computers you will have to ask someone to install and configure MicroSuck's Bigtime XP or Vista anyway. You might as well buy this O/S for $20 measly bucks and then ask someone to help you install it, AND then you don't have to get it from behind by purchasing Microsoft Office Professional 2007, and all their other sucky stuff for $365.99 (amazon.com price). Heck, OpenOffice, the equivalent of Microsoft Office Professional 2007 is FREE man. What are you waiting for.

I didn't give it five stars because it didn't detect my NVidia SLI graphics card set up, and I had to download some codecs to get my DVD video players to work (they couldn't include the codecs for some legal BS reason), and ya basically cannot play very many high end games on it (that's what I use computers for 90% of the time) unless ya use Wine which is still in the development stage and ya need a lot of work to get bleeding edge games to work.

Flip Album CD Maker Home Edition
$49.95
I am scanning in family heirloom photos and wanted a way to share them with other family members. This software allows you to create photo albums to show on your computer. It is very easy to use. If you can use Windows Explorer, you can be up and running very easily. Things I liked best about it: 1. Most important is that you can create self-executable CDs so that you can give away a CD of your digital photo album that will open up and run on almost any computer. 2) The pictures you put into it are retained as individual files in their original format (.jpg, .tif, etc.) so that you or someone else can copy them later to use in other programs, 3) photos can be printed from the CD you create and can be viewed full screen size one at a time. 4) you can add text pages, blank pages and bookmarks to your album. It includes a small selection of music and album covers. The most serious shortcoming is that to arrange the photos you need to drag and drop and can't cut and paste. Any new photo added goes to the last page until you drag and drop to a different location in the album. If you have 400 photos, dragging and dropping is very labor intensive and difficult, making it desirable to name your photos in a way that you can organize them before moving them to the Flipalbum software (for example the file name would start with a number). Were it not for this drawback I would have given it a 5. The number of photos you can add is only limited by the capacity of CD or other storage. NOTE; that you must have a CDRW and software separate from this program in order to create the CDs. All in all, though a really simple easy to use program. Even if better software comes along later and you don't use it anymore, the time learning and creating the photo albums is short enough that it's worth using in the meantime.

Santa Fe Linux- Desktop Linux Operating System
$55.95
This operating system is just a bad system, it would install one machine out of 5 machines i have in my game room, but the one time it did install none of my hardware was supported, if someone is looking for a good stable updated great to use, easy to use linux distro i would recommend ubuntu 6.10, ubuntu's saying is "it should just work" and it does, right out of the box. free or you can buy the dvd install disk