Operating systems come and operating systems go...

I have been working on a project one of the necessities of the project it was done on Micro$oft Windows XP. The operating system died the death that all Micro$oft operating systems do.

Since the project is an educational one I have decided to give Edubuntu 7.10 a chance, it comes with Firefox and OpenOffice already installed so that saves some work.

Upon installing the Edubuntu it then updated everything (operating systems and applications) that it could and restarted the computer once and was ready for use.

This is in stark contrast to the last time I reinstalled Micro$oft Windows XP it took about an hour in updates, I had to download both Firefox and OpenOffice and then I had to run in administrator for anything to work.

I lost about a weeks work and I hope not to do that again, weekly backups are a thing of the past, I will be looking into on-line backup services in the next few weeks.