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Rosie:
heh - i hope that subject caught peoples attention  

anyway,  currently i am on a computer that runs win2000.  i'm a budding designer, so, i run Adobe and Macromedia products.  They are the windows versions.

i want to run linux, i would really like to do this.  yes, i say fuck to microsoft and i proudly used my email address here when i was in my course [multimedia].

eventually i would like to get a mac, but that requires money [which i don't have], and i ain't just getting any old mac.  i want one with the movey type screen  :D  then i'd have to get cross-grades and all this requires more money than i don't have or am likely to have for a good long time.

so, before that, I'd like to know, can i get a version of linux that will allow me to run windows programs?  i've heard of windows type linux OS's. but it seems people around here aren't too crash hot on them. i agree. but i don't want 2 operating systems on the same computer.  

i want to be a linux user damnit.

any thoughts / input?

thanks, Rosie

jrigby:
well there is lindows and I think Xandros has some compatability but dont take my word for it im a Newbie to linux.

pkd_lives:
Sorry Linux and windows are different, in that they do not work the same way - this is why *nix are better, because they work better.

Lindows perports to act like windows, but I have never used it and I hear it basically makes you root all the time, bipassing one of the essential good things in *nix.

You can get emulators of Windows, such as wine, which are free or very cheap, or you can get youself some Virtual machine software - expensive I believe. Not necessarily a good option, but it might do what you need, the cheap ones tend to be hard work to configure (I have not suceeded yet).

You should contact Adobe and ask when their Linux version is coming out, what with recent actions by M$ they might now be very pliable to the *nix community, or you could just save save save and get the Mac you always wanted. Anyway Macs are better for graphics. And as Macromedia is effectively a M$ company, don't expect much from them.

This is not quite what you want to hear, but systems that work differently do not work the same way (stating the obvious here I know), a thing Sun tried to fix with Java - which seems to have been hijacked into a high grade memory consumer and advertising feature.

Dual boot is easy and recommended if you require the short term power use of your PC. It keeps your ass covered.

[ November 02, 2002: Message edited by: pkd ]

KernelPanic:
www.frankscorner.org

shhh! - dont tell anybody im aiding the use of winders apps.

KernelPanic:
ps. there is the gimp, but i dunno what you would use for flash movies

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