Ubuntu Linux on your desktop
Coppins Systems Services also offers Ubuntu Linux, which is a free alternative to Microsoft’s Windows. You can read more about this operating system on the Ubuntu website (www.ubuntu.com).
This operating system gives you a decent selection of free software you can use, such as Mozilla Firefox (a web browser), Mozilla Thunderbird (for e-mail reading) and OpenOffice (a free alternative to Microsoft Office, which can read and write Microsoft Office format documents), as well as many other pieces of software that most people like to use.
A demonstration can be provided of a fully-functional installation of Ubuntu Linux, and the operating system can be started on your own computer using a "live CD", which doesn't change anything on your computer yet gives you a functional environment that looks and reacts exactly like a normal installation on your hard disk. The only significant difference between that of a demonstration from a "Live CD" and a properly installed Linux system is performance; the latter performs significantly better.