The BBC has an article and an interview extolling the virtues of the Free and Open Source Alternative Christian Einfeldt of the Digital Tipping Point calls it a mini tipping point in itself.
Staying at the cutting edge of high tech is an expensive business, but if you are about to buy the very latest PC then you might like to know that you do not have to pay through the nose to load it with useful software.
For many years buying a home computer has been synonymous with buying a copy of Microsoft's Windows operating system. But now, led by the US computer giant Dell, it is getting easier to purchase a PC loaded with a cheaper alternative. Windows is a significant part of the cost of a new system, so not having to buy it with your machine can save you a packet. Windows is the market leader, and Mac OS is the equivalent operating system pre-installed on new Apple machines. But for the past year Dell has been selling systems pre-installed with Linux, the free, open source alternative.
