.. or authorize one etc? does one exist?

i heard some rumors of this a while back, but upon googling "open source windows" or "open source windows OS" , all i find is open source apps

i was told something like this existed but found it hard to believe, just based on how much he likes to go after linux users

simple questions. Can you use linux the same way you use windows? does it use a point and click interface? Do you have to know a lot about command line and do you have to build your operating system? or can you just pop in a live cd like windows and everything more or less is done for you? I’m sick of Windows Linux users could you give me some feedback?
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What I’m looking for is a version that has a gui like you said your grandmother is using Ubuntu. I need something that will support a virtual PBX like FreePBX or something and hopefully install it for me. Maybe CentOS? Ideas?
I’m also operating under the assumption that command line is like command prompt in windows. Correct? I have had some experience with that. It’s just that there are so many flavors. I tried a dual boot with an Ubuntu ISO and got 187 instances(basically systemic) of keylogger .com It could’ve just com from the mirror but I was on the Official Ubuntu site. Also why do you say that Debian is slower? That was my first choice considering I’m running HP AMD64

linux users r u excited, it will be the first kde 4.1 distro and they r one of the few linux distributions I like plus I heard that Cyber link may make a linux bluray player and that may be included in the Power Pack.
I didn’t know so many people liked Mandriva……lol

Many people seem to dislike the Suse distribution and I was wondering why? Is there anything fundamentally wrong with it? Is it considered to "pedestrian" for the needs of most Linux users?

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The company I work for has built a distribution using the "linux from scratch" route and built it from source. They intend to sell it on for loads of money but refuse to let even us "in-house" linux users from getting the source or modifying it to help us deploy it easier. Is this legal? and if so does that not go against the whole "open source" ethos?
The single application they run on the new OS is a in-house development ported from DOS, but how do they stand on licensing that too?

Just a bit confused,
G.

I have kubuntu feisty, and I wanto have yahoo messenger as I did with windows for the last 4 years, so If anyone knows how please help me.

If anyone from yahoo staff see this… yahoo-linux users are desperate for an upgraded version of the messenger so please, make an effort and create it please… thanks to everyone. sorry for my english. I’m colombian