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Unit F22, Coppull Enterprise Center, Coppull. Lancashire. Tel. 01257 368281

Our shop and service bay at coppull is now open on Tuesday and Thursday 10.30am till 5pm. Business customers can contact us via the usual numbers. Click here for a map


 

Alternatives to Windows

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Do I have to use Microsoft Windows or are there any alternatives? No there are many alternatives to Microsoft windows. Some of these are available at a cost and some of them are available free under a variety of licenses. The most common is the GNU General Public License. The main types are below

Linux

Linux - Linux was originally created by a university student Linus Torvalds as a hobby. It was based on Minnix which was a small unix system. This is currently the most popular alternative to Microsoft Windows. A more detailed description of the most popular (by downloads) versions of linux can be found on the Linux Page

UNIX

Unix - Unix is an operating system which was in the past usually used on large mainframes and personally I don't think that it suitable for the majority of home or small business users. If you want to know more about unix you can find more about it here. Unix is mostly available under paid software licence's
Beos Beos - At the current moment in time Be incorporated is selling all the intellectual property rights to beos to a division of palm inc. It is therefore uncertain whether this operating system will undergo further development.
os/2 0S/2- This was originally produced by Microsoft and IBM. Microsoft went on to produce windows NT and IBM still produce updates for OS/2 although this is not a greatly used operating system now. IBM have withdrawn standard(free) support for OS/2 as of December 2006.
mac osx 0SX- This is an operating system exclusively manufactured by Apple computers for use on their Apple Macintosh hardware. "Officially" this will not run on a pc. It is based on a "Debian" version of Linux

SOLARIS

Solaris - This is a java based operating system from Sun microcomputers. Sun describe it as the most advanced operating system on the planet. This is a 'free' operating system although not for beginners.

There are in fact hundreds of operating systems but the majority are based or derived from the main types above.
Chorley's leading computer shop is a member of comptia We can offer a complete solution to your IT requirements, whether a single personal computer built to your specifications or a total supply and support solution
Excelllent customer service as member of itacs We are within easy driving driving distance of Abbey Village, Adlington, Appley bridge, Aspull, Bamber bridge, Blackrod, Bretherton, Brindle, Brinscall, Charnock richard, Chorley, Clayton le woods, Coppull, Croston, Eccleston, Euxton, Farrington, Gathurst, Grimeford village, Haigh, Heapey, Heskin Green, Horwich, Houghton, Hutton, Leyland, Limbrick, Longton, Marylebone, Midge Hall, Much hoole, New longton, Penwortham, Preston, Red rock, Rivington, Shevington, Standish, Walton le dale, Wheelton, White coppice, Whittle le woods, Wigan, Wingates, Withnell, Wrightington bar and many other locations.
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Chorley's leading computer shop for Business and home computer repair. Service and Repair of PC's and Apple Mac . When we were looking for premises for 1 Stop Tech shop we had a number of considerations. We wanted to be located in a strategic area at the centre of the motorway network that allowed PJR Micro Ltd to service our business and domestic customers easily and cost effectively. We therefore chose Chorley as this location. As we have continued expanding we quickly realised that our Chorley shop was to small for our purposes. We therefore started looking for new larger premises. There was nothing suitable within the immediate area so we expanded our search further afield, and located a building in Whelley, Wigan which was ideally suited for our purposes which we moved to in 2009. As our business is now going more and more data based we need a premises with fast backbone connection and as the fastest speeds we can obtain at Wigan is 3mb we have amalgamated all our business under one roof at our business service center at Coppull Where we have a 15mb and a 11mb backbone connection. Our Business customers range in areas from Liverpool to Wilmslow and Kendal to York and we have domestic customers all over Lancashire and Greater Manchester. Our new computer shop and premises have extensive offroad parking so short distance to carry sickly pc's.

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