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Hello,
I am looking for a free copy of windows 2000 that I can download. I am not
in a postition to buy it right now, as I am just home from the hospital,
after major surgery and don't have the money to purchase one. I am not sure
when I will have enough money set aside to do it. I am on disability.

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks


Ron
 
limbless said:
Hello,
I am looking for a free copy of windows 2000 that I can download. I am
not
in a postition to buy it right now, as I am just home from the hospital,
after major surgery and don't have the money to purchase one. I am not
sure
when I will have enough money set aside to do it. I am on disability.

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks


Ron
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Anything you could download would be illegal. You need to buy a copy of W2k
or any Windows operating system if you wish to use it - and not an OEM copy
or anything from a shady website.

There are plenty of free operating systems out there, though. Look into
*nix.
 
limbless said:
Thanks for your reply.

Do you have any suggestions on a good free OS?
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I have set up two boxes with Solaris 10 (www.sun.com).

I added OpenOffice 2 (www.openoffice.org) for word processing,
spreadsheets, etc, and FireFox and Thunderbird from
www.mozilla.org for web browsing and e-mail. (The Solaris 10
download includes older versions of FireFox and TBird - go to the
Mozilla site and download new versions.)
 
Rob,
Thanks for your reply. I have a couple of questions for you.

1. How do I partition my hard drive?

2. when i attempt to download Sun10 two boxes come up. One to set
platform and the other for either a CD or DVD. What do I do?

Thanks

Ron
 
limbless said:
Rob,
Thanks for your reply. I have a couple of questions for you.

1. How do I partition my hard drive?

2. when i attempt to download Sun10 two boxes come up. One to set
platform and the other for either a CD or DVD. What do I do?
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The "Platform" is for your CPU type. I downloaded for x86-64 - I
can't remember exactly what the other options were but I'm pretty
sure they included x86-32 and Sparc.

The files you download will be ISO images for you to burn onto
one DVD or several CDs - choose which medium you would prefer to
install from.
 
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