

Lindows (now Linspire)
#1
Posted 10 June 2004 - 11:02 AM

#2
Posted 14 June 2004 - 08:32 AM
#3
Posted 15 June 2004 - 06:34 AM
In my humble opinion (biased, I use this distro a lot for data recovery), you're better off with Knoppix. It has a bunch of stuff on the Live CD and WINE's one of them. Try it, you'll like it.
#4
Posted 15 June 2004 - 07:17 AM
You can run Windows along side it, and it is quite easy to install, as they are aiming for the end user and IT market.
The problem being that a recent update that MS released stops Linux from loading if you where dual booting, but if you place the correct information back into the Boot.ini file it will work again sweetly.
Rich
#5
Posted 15 June 2004 - 09:04 AM
#6
Posted 15 June 2004 - 09:57 AM
As is, you may want to consider Windows 2000 - it's cheap, and it runs well on a machine like that. Just go to Fry's, buy a power cable, then ask for an OEM license of Win2K Pro. Since you bought hardware, they're obliged to sell it to you.
#7
Posted 15 June 2004 - 02:11 PM
(EDIT) I jusy re-read mitchshrader's excellent "pinned'' advice on purchasing computers -- he also notes the win2k:Xp price differential!
Edited by wreck, 15 June 2004 - 02:58 PM.
#8
Posted 18 June 2004 - 01:42 AM
i have duel booted with linux and m.e and linux and xp-m.e
and several veriations of linux on one pc.
its harder to do than a duel boot of windows. if theres truble. but its done by many.
now many people are useing virtual drives to do this.
jmho
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#9
Posted 18 June 2004 - 06:11 AM
It takes the worst of each operating systems (windows and linux) and compiles them into a single distro. Aint Linux open source? Yeah, it is, so why wont Linspire hand out the source? You can't run half of the windows apps you want to on it, its just horrible.
Get Slackware or SuSE.
#10
Posted 18 June 2004 - 08:47 AM
#11
Posted 18 June 2004 - 02:14 PM
with using different hard drive to duel boot you can set one hard drive in bios to
auto detect the drive you want to boot and not the other. primitive but it works. google for details.
if your using w2k-xp they come with a built in boot manager and installing any other windoze version is autodetechted to boot manager and you get a choice on boot which o/s you which to use.
but with using 98-m.e and anther windoze besides w2k-xp you need to use a 3rd party bootmanager program.
but with duel booting 98-m.e and linux you can use lilo or grub the linux boot managers to do this. back up all info you don,t want to lose before any Major o/s or duel booting changes.
you should do a linux google on how to duel boot windows and linux. you will get enough info to keep you busy.
and i could type it out for days and miss some point. look for what been written already!
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#12
Posted 18 June 2004 - 02:40 PM
#13
Posted 20 June 2004 - 04:42 PM
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