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Netscape: The Great Escape From Microsoft

Netscape 7.0 is so far superior than IE. It's a much cleaner interface and is setup with the user in mind. The new "TABs" alone were enough to get me to download it.

This last weekend I pulled one of my extra machines out of the closet and decided I had 100gb of hard drive space that were going to waste and I wanted to use them. I decided that I wanted to find a good version of linux that I could feel comfortable enough to run as a desktop machine. I tried Lindows and it was extremely slow and without a membership to their"Click and Run" warehouse it wasn't worth the effort. I then then installed RetHat and began looking for software for it. As I was looking for software and trying to learn more about the latest linux movement I found a forum talking about different linux distribution. The forum was comparing distributions for new linux users and were talking about Lindows, Lycoris, RedHat, Mandrake, SUSE, and Slackware. I read many post about Lycoris and decided to check it out. I downloaded and Installed a copy of Lycoris on my spare machine. WOW! I found if very easy to use and installing of packages was child's play. I was successfully able to install any package I needed without having to know any linux console commands. It was while finding programs to download that I found the use of Netscape's browser far more superior than IE.

I had heard from wonko about these "Tabs" but was not exactly sure what they were. But what they are is what is so awesome about having them. They allow you to open up new browser windows with in a browser and allow you to switch between with ease. So if you wanted to have 10 different websites up and wanted to know exactly where each site was on which page, you could look at the tab and know what page was which. Very valuable indeed.

They also have AIM built directly into the browser in a nice and clean interface that makes being online chatting and surfing the net very seamless. There are far more superiorities in Netscape and I suggest you try it for yourself.

BTW, Its more pertty too!

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