Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/02/18/14:07:39
On Thu, 17 Feb 2000 14:24:03 -0000, "Chris Jones" <cj7 AT ukc DOT ac DOT uk>
wrote:
>Ok, well can some linux guru answer these questions:
>1. Where can I download linux?
If you have a T1 or faster, the redhat.com web site links to it.
If you have DSL, cable, or slower, it'll actually arrive at your door
sooner if you order Official Red Hat Linux.
>2. How easy is it to install?
Red Hat 6.1 is no harder to install than Microsoft Windows 98 or 2000.
>3. Will it install on a FAT partition,
>or does it need its own type of partition?
An Extended-2 filesystem is preferred, but it can use a FAT partition
using UMSDOS. (This is how winlinux 2000 and Phat Linux work.)
>4. Does it dual-boot gracefully with DOS/Win2000/etc?
DOS, Win98: Yes. At LILO you type dos or linux to start.
Win2k: Overwrites LILO on purpose.
>> Well A _good_ 32 bit OS should be able to handle and terminate any badly
>> behaving program gracefully. And gracefully doesn't mean crashing ;-).
>
>Yes, ok, but I was comparing it to Win9x - and in comparison with '98,
>Win2000 is a beacon of stability. :-)
F8-DOS 7.1 (the MS-DOS that comes with Win9x) is stable.
>Yes, but RHIDE isn't a graphics-mode program. Doom/Duke Nukem 3D will run
>full-screen under win2000, just without any sound. In fact, I couldn't get
>any DOS program to use sound under win2k.
HAL is sucks.
>Yeah, happens in win9x too - it's really odd, especially as if you leave the
>game with Alt-Tab, it does save and restore the screen properly.
There ought to be a way to unbind that key.
>Practically speaking there's no real alternative to Windows.
What's FreeBSD + XFree86 + Wine?
>I hate it myself
So do I.
>would much prefer to use DOS
When I load DOS from LILO, I have the BootMenu=1 in my msdos.sys which
lets me pick 1 for Windows or 5 for DOS.
>But all applications and games these days are for Windows.
All? Have you been to http://depot.allegro.cc recently?
>Ok, so there are linux versions of a few, and WinEmu
>or whatever it was can run some Windows progs
Wine is not an emulator.
http://www.winehq.com/
>but at the end of the day you have to use Windows.
At least it runs Windows dnetc and connects to the distributed.net
keyserver, which DOS dnetc does not do.
>Well Windows 2000 has never crashed for me except where DOS apps are
>involved. So if you only run Windows apps, it very rarely crashes.
Unless one of those Windows apps is anything with "Explorer" in the
name.
>> BTW when one user complained to M$ about how often windoze crashes he
>> was told that "We acknowledge that problem and our solution to that is, we
>> are working on reducing the reboot time for windoze"!!!! Typical of M$
>> won't you agree...
>
>LOL ;-)
MEEE TWOOOO!!!!1!1!!
>> Anyway playing a few games and running word processing can
>> be done in DOS also..
>
>That's true, but until someone writes a DirectX emulator for DOS,
>and printer drivers for recent printers into DOS word-processors,
>we're stuck with Windoze.
Or just insist on PCL or PostScript printers.
--
Damian Yerrick http://yerricde.tripod.com/
Comment on story ideas: http://home1.gte.net/frodo/quickjot.html
AOL is sucks! Find out why: http://anti-aol.org/faqs/aas/
View full sig: http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~yerricde/sig.html
This is McAfee VirusScan. Add these two lines to your .sig to
prevent the spread of .sig viruses. http://www.mcafee.com/
- Raw text -