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SPoT:
Ouchy Void. That must have indeed been destructive. I recieved the Chernobyl virus, and it had started rewriting my BIOS before I got to it. Very close that one. however, we use UNIX at work. I dont think there are any of those, but once again, its possible
And true, just cuz its been this way doesnt mean we cant change it, but it will take alot. But Im content to sit back and watch it shake itself apart. Then having learned something, pick up the pieces and start again.
Centurian
Im not going on about virii, lol. Im just saying that it is possible, and it will happen.
As I said, I use my PC for entertainment. I surf the web with an easy Browser, I play games like UT (I KNOW!) and Diablo2, and running them with voice in the background mostly socializing, not much to do at 2am when work is over. I beta test games, such as EA's Motor City Online(Crap since release) and the EA's Network Play System. But most of all I just tweak for entertainment, and give out tips to my friends. I loved this about Linux. But I couldnt run the other stuff due to incompatibility. And forget getting my freinds on Linux, lol. They dont even know how to change thier screen res. And dont even ask about my wifes PC experiance......
The next time I do an FDISK, I was planning on installing a distro. Im just not sure wich one.
Centurian:
Hey,
If your planning to install a distro I would suggest one of these.
1. Mandrake (very easy install, Full set of graphical tools) I use this one.
2. SUSE I have heard it is even easier than Mandrake but have no personal experience with it. Also SUSE isn't freely available for download.
3. RedHat (very easy install, some graphical tools) I tried it but prefer Mandrake.
I also recommend you setup a dual boot system because not all windows games will run under Winex at this point. Although you could use VMWare. From what I have heard it is awesome and will run any OS virtually.
SPoT:
Ill check them out. I have heard goo things about SUSE. A friend is supposed to burn me a disk, but he's been out of work with a broken wrist.
Oh yeah, I plan on dual booting, my wife will never figure out Linux.
Ill check out the browsers mentioned here too.
Thx!
Hardware support?
Soyo K7VTA-Pro VIA chipset, running 133mhz
GeForce 2 MX 400
Sblaster PCI 512
HP CD-RW 9100
Intel 2100 DSL (Uh Oh, its internal!)
and a belkin generic USB hub.
Think Ill run into any problems with those? Mandrake was hell to configure for my TNT2 Ultra and the VIA DMA. I did manage to get a Lucent Winmodem working in Mandrake, but it didnt work very well, lol.
Centurian:
Hey,
quote:Originally posted by SPoT:
Ill check them out. I have heard goo things about SUSE. A friend is supposed to burn me a disk, but he's been out of work with a broken wrist.
Oh yeah, I plan on dual booting, my wife will never figure out Linux.
Ill check out the browsers mentioned here too.
Thx!
Hardware support?
Soyo K7VTA-Pro VIA chipset, running 133mhz
GeForce 2 MX 400
Sblaster PCI 512
HP CD-RW 9100
Intel 2100 DSL (Uh Oh, its internal!)
and a belkin generic USB hub.
Think Ill run into any problems with those? Mandrake was hell to configure for my TNT2 Ultra and the VIA DMA. I did manage to get a Lucent Winmodem working in Mandrake, but it didnt work very well, lol.
--- End quote ---
Don't know about the DSL but the rest looks fine. I have a Geforce 2 MX w/32 megs of ram and it works great.
As for your wife using linux if you setup the KDE it looks alot like Windows and works simular in many ways.
voidmain:
As far as my wife and kids go. With Windows I got tired of hearing "Dad, my report won't print, what's this error mean?" and I reply "I don't know, read the message, I thought Windows was supposed to be easy". I switched them to Linux and I don't have these problems. It doesn't crash, the stuff works. For those point and clickers who do nothing more than email/surf/Office it is equally as easy as Windows but without the headaches. They surf all their web sites, they read their mail in Evolution (which is very much like the full blown Outlook but without the little virus problem). I was concerned that it would be more of a hassle for them as well. I have found that just the opposite is true. And I have more time to respond to these forums because I'm not out fixing their Windows errors.
I've only got one thing that keeps me from getting rid of one Windows machine and that is "RealFlight G2" an R/C flight simulator. I paid $300 for that software and it has this insane copy protection. When I try to install it under VMware it thinks there is a debugger running and will not install. Even though I've purchased this software I would have to crack it to use it the way I want to. Too bad there is not a Linux version. But rather than say "Linux sucks" because I can't run my G2 sim, I use Linux for everything I can. As soon as enough of us switch from MS to Linux there "will" be the demand and these vendors will have no choice but to port if they want to stay in business. We may have to put up with fewer "commercial" apps early on but the more that make the switch, the more software will come. Once MS is no longer the "majority" desktop OS we won't have to worry about our Operating system spying on us because of the motivations of the company behind it. Sure there will still be commercial apps with these motivations but it will be basically non-existent for the majority of users. And it will be more stable, with "MUCH less" potential of getting hit with a virus.
[ March 16, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]
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