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I am new to alternate OS-need help choosing

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voidmain:
Actually you can run the DOS emulator if you must under Linux. Don't know why you would want to but you can run DOS apps under it.

mskarl:
I've had SuSE 7.3 for about 2 weeks now.  It's a very user friendly program and would recomend it to anyone!!!

Master of Reality:
theres nothing wrong with mandrake, thats what i am using

Calum:
well i'd say get linux, as voidmain says, you can set it up to emulate dos if you want, or dual boot with a real copy of the dos OS, i didn't know you could execute dos programs in a unix shell, but there you go.

you might want to try out Lindows. you have to pay for it mind, but it claims to run both unix and windows programs in the same OS.
If you do try it, tell us what you think somewhere on these pages, but i'd probably recommend linux first, and see how you go.
it sounds like any modern distribution would be fine. i have tried red hat and turbolinux, red hat is a bit "quirky" so maybe try turbolinux, or suselinux, or mandrake linux (that's flavour of the month right now i think)...

kinky:
Lindows is just a linux distro... but it looks like they are making their own gui instead of using KDE or gnome, but im not totally sure on that one... they also took the WINE project and are modifing it for the windows compatibilty thing.

but its still going to be months before Lindows 1.0 is released... you can only get prerelease versions if you are an 'Insider' (meaning your paying Lindows.com to beta test) or if you get a copy an Insider has leaked.

i use WINE on my suse 7.3 and can run many windows apps.

if your into gaming on Linux, try out www.transgaming.com ...

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