{"id":4441,"date":"2012-01-05T05:00:09","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T10:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/?p=4441"},"modified":"2012-01-01T17:46:04","modified_gmt":"2012-01-01T22:46:04","slug":"start-the-new-year-with-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/start-the-new-year-with-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Start the New Year with Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0051VVOB2\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=oneclilin-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B0051VVOB2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ws.assoc-amazon.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ASIN=B0051VVOB2&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=oneclilin-20&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=oneclilin-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B0051VVOB2\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you were lucky enough to get a new Android phone or Tablet \u00a0or even a Kindle for Christmas, then welcome to Linux!<\/p>\n<p>These devices all run a version of Linux. \u00a0Why Linux? \u00a0Because Linux is open and free. \u00a0These companies can obtain Linux without having to pay a hefty license fee. \u00a0 They can then modify it to meet their needs.<\/p>\n<p>So, the question remains, if you&#8217;re already using Linux in one of the devices, why not use Linux on your desktop computer<br \/>\nLinux is free and easy to use.  It&#8217;s a snap to install.  I use the PCLinuxOS Linux distribution.<\/p>\n<p>PCLinuxOS comes with all you need &#8220;right out of the box.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Simply\u00a0<a title=\"Download PCLinuxOS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pclinuxos.com\/?page_id=10\" target=\"_blank\">download PCLinuxOS<\/a> (Gt the KDE Version, it has the most eye candy), creat a CD\/DVD, test it out as a live CD, then install right from the desktop.  PCLinuxOS will do the rest!<\/p>\n<p>And you&#8217;ll be rid of windows and all it&#8217;s problems of viruses, spyware, pop-ups, and trojans.<\/p>\n<p>Resolve to make your computer run better and more\u00a0securely\u00a0in 2012. Get <a title=\"PCLinuxOS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pclinuxos.com\" target=\"_blank\">Linux<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were lucky enough to get a new Android phone or Tablet \u00a0or even a Kindle for Christmas, then welcome to Linux! These devices all run a version of Linux. \u00a0Why Linux? \u00a0Because Linux is open and free. \u00a0These companies can obtain Linux without having to pay a hefty license fee. \u00a0 They can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[27,381,382,9,10,29],"class_list":["post-4441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-android","tag-kindle","tag-kindle-fire","tag-linux","tag-pclinuxos","tag-tablet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4441"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4476,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4441\/revisions\/4476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}