From: Damian Yerrick Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Win 2000 & Djgpp Organization: Pin Eight Software http://pineight.8m.com/ Message-ID: References: <88h09d$9of$1 AT spruce DOT ukc DOT ac DOT uk> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 104 X-Trace: /wqtxnC/RZk6Sksj6sF8aoq11IvI3jB9G+54zgzuScuA6PIcxhJl0oYO6WvoBGCSb1coVJSva0Es!xT97pruoPEmLnRM9dU5hy1x+vNAwZ1FTwJTVeJmPYSHFRHzIWVDNYQr47M3Vq+yMkgPLmTVFIA8K!KYpyMn89 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT gte DOT net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 03:08:42 GMT Distribution: world Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 03:08:42 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Thu, 17 Feb 2000 14:24:03 -0000, "Chris Jones" 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/