An Introduction to alternatives to Microsoft and other industry standard software.

Starting and running a business is a daunting task especially on a tight budget, It can be hard finding the resources to buy the software you need. Being a stony broke student can also be as just as much hassle. Students can get software licenses but these are limiting and usually way to expensive for the average student. Student licenses are next to useless when you actually get into the wider world. So I've compiled the below table showing what software is available for free or very nearly free allowing you to compete with the big boys, save your self some hard cash while not lining our friend Bill's already far too deep pockets. Click the applications title to find out more about it.Learning Linux

Why learn Linux? Because you will save yourself or your company money due to GNU license and it's ability to run on very low spec machines (it's also super stable); plus the kudos you'll get from fellow geeks when you say "well we run Linux" once finished discussing Star Trek Voyager.

*Read about the history of Linux.
*Find how to build yourself a router and firewall out your computer scrap here.

You want another windows file server but don't want to pay for another windows server license? No problem Linux can do this to. Look on google for some Samba tutorials.