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Pepping Up Windows

Posted by Zonk on from the work-with-what-you've-got dept.

PhairOh writes "Toms Hardware has an article about improving Windows with free and Open Source Software. It features everything from the obvious like Gimp and OpenOffice and also some interesting choices like Virtuawin. From the article: 'The average Windows user tends to be less than satisfied with Windows. And that's no surprise, either, given the rather woeful state of its default applications.'"

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  1. Vista by gcnaddict · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well I guess we could wait til Windows Vista and get our share of card games (solitaire, hearts) which take up 80mb ram thanks to useless resources such as backgrounds

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  2. slow day for tech-news? by Quadfreak0 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    or is slashdot slacking off, more crap like this and /. wont be any better than digg. oh wait was this article a paid ad?