Stable and FREE Vista Media Centre OS Alternatives

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http://www.mythtv.org/modules.php?name=MythFeatures
http://freevo.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html

Also more secure, and run on much cheaper hardware. Some slick glass and 3D
interfaces are also available for Linux from Sun and others. It takes time to
set up a Linux distro but once up and running, you don't need to care
anymore; latest Linux even self-update over the Web. Windows XP used to be
easy to set up, but would then cause problems once up and running. With
Vista, it's complex to set up (e.g., bluetooth, extra video and audio codecs,
etc.) and once up and running problems continue. You might even lose your
documents in Office 2007 running under Vista when moving them between
different machines (on a USB drive), because of the "new file system
security" features.

Try http://www.openoffice.org/

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http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/co...847&dg=microsoft.public.windows.vista.general
 
mbvista wrote:

[...]

Anybody who would attempt to use a knock-off of a 40-year old operating
system originally designed by a money-losing division of your local
telephone company and whose basic command structure was compiled by
programmers convinced MS-DOS was not cryptic enough is insane.
 
Mike said:
<more marketing drivel deleted>

They are "free" for a reason. You get what you pay for.

Mike
Click to expand...

Yes, you do get what you pay for. You can either pay hand over fist of
your hard earned cash out your arse for MS buggy, insecure DRM ware, or
you can get quality from FOSS media centres like the ones above. I use
MythTV here at home and it works like a dream.

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HeyBub said:
mbvista wrote:

[...]

Anybody who would attempt to use a knock-off of a 40-year old operating
system originally designed by a money-losing division of your local
telephone company and whose basic command structure was compiled by
programmers convinced MS-DOS was not cryptic enough is insane.
Click to expand...

Anyone with a response like yours is obviously not openminded.

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Priceless quotes in m.p.w.vista.general group:
http://protectfreedom.tripod.com/kick.html

Most recent idiotic quote added to KICK (Klassic Idiotic Caption Kooks):
"Nope. Just CLUELESS CUNTS LIKE YOU too stupid to work it out. Thank
the bittorent brigade."

"Good poets borrow; great poets steal."
- T. S. Eliot
 
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