<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6966388.post-4724606190983412745</id><published>2009-02-01T12:47:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-01T21:24:14.499-08:00</updated><title type='text'>While you weren't looking, Linux got great.</title><summary type='text'>I had an older Windows box that needed to be re-installed. (It's an HP Optiplex). Now, this isn't a crap machine. It's a 2.2GHz processor with a very decent video card.  But it didn't come to me with a restore disk, so I called Dell to get one. Sadly, they couldn't hep me out because it originally shipped with Windows 2000. The restore disks are no longer being manufactured. They couldn't send a </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6966388/4724606190983412745/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6966388&amp;postID=4724606190983412745' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6966388/posts/default/4724606190983412745'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6966388/posts/default/4724606190983412745'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.cratchit.org/blog/2009/02/while-you-werent-looking-linux-got.html' title='While you weren&apos;t looking, Linux got great.'/><author><name>Dave Leigh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08617556290378317379</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='03590998305733267419'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry>