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From: Bill Turner on 27 Aug 2006 00:03 ORIGINAL MESSAGE: On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 18:03:07 -0400, Mark Warner <mhwarner.inhibitions(a)insightbb.com> wrote: >Why spend the $90(?) when you can get a "real OS" for free? ------------ REPLY FOLLOWS ------------ That's actually a good question. The reason to spend the money is you are paying Microsoft employees to fix all those annoyances you would have to fix yourself with Linux. If your time is worth nothing, or if you really like fixing stuff that doesn't work out of the box, then Linux may be a good deal for you. I have always said that Windows is for people who need to get things done and Linux is for people whose hobby is computers. That is not a put down for either one; there is a place for both. -- Mr Bill
From: Daze N. Knights on 27 Aug 2006 00:17 Mark Warner wrote: > Daze N. Knights wrote: >> >> KDE? =Knoppix? > > No. KDE is the window manager; e.g. the GUI interface and all the basic > programs and utilities that come with it. Gnome is the other big name. > > Knoppix is a live CD packge based on Debian that uses Gnome. The name is > a play on the author's name, Klaus Knopper. > > Are you confused yet? :-) > What, *me* confused? ;-) BTW: I just briefly tried out the LiveZen, and found it less instantly intriguing than PClinuxOS. First, it kept sticking in different places while loading and I had to reboot 4 times before I finally got to the desktop . . . -- Daze
From: Bill Turner on 27 Aug 2006 00:28 ORIGINAL MESSAGE: On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 03:47:18 GMT, "?Q?" <boxcars(a)gmx.net> wrote: >Windows is very unfriendly to dual-booting. People who aren't >completely comfortable with managing partitions and bootloaders should >image their drives before trying to set up another OS on the same >machine, IMO. ------------ REPLY FOLLOWS ------------ If you're going to do much of this swapping back and forth, I'd recommend a removable drive cage for each OS. They are not expensive and you can keep your OS's completely separate. I have three of them and they work like a charm. Got 'em on eBay for less than $10 each plus shipping. -- Mr Bill
From: Daze N. Knights on 27 Aug 2006 00:31 Bill Turner wrote: > ORIGINAL MESSAGE: > > On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 03:47:18 GMT, "?Q?" <boxcars(a)gmx.net> wrote: > > >> Windows is very unfriendly to dual-booting. People who aren't >> completely comfortable with managing partitions and bootloaders should >> image their drives before trying to set up another OS on the same >> machine, IMO. > > ------------ REPLY FOLLOWS ------------ > > If you're going to do much of this swapping back and forth, I'd > recommend a removable drive cage for each OS. They are not expensive > and you can keep your OS's completely separate. I have three of them > and they work like a charm. Got 'em on eBay for less than $10 each > plus shipping. > Sounds like an idea. I know such things exist, but do you have any links to show just what you're talking about, by-any-chance? -- Daze
From: Mark Warner on 27 Aug 2006 00:44
Daze N. Knights wrote: > Bill Turner wrote: >> "?Q?" <boxcars(a)gmx.net> wrote: >>> >>> Windows is very unfriendly to dual-booting. People who aren't >>> completely comfortable with managing partitions and bootloaders should >>> image their drives before trying to set up another OS on the same >>> machine, IMO. >> >> If you're going to do much of this swapping back and forth, I'd >> recommend a removable drive cage for each OS. They are not expensive >> and you can keep your OS's completely separate. I have three of them >> and they work like a charm. Got 'em on eBay for less than $10 each >> plus shipping. > > Sounds like an idea. I know such things exist, but do you have any links > to show just what you're talking about, by-any-chance? http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=394845&CatId=0 -- Mark Warner PCLinuxOS v.93 Registered Linux User #415318 ....lose .inhibitions when replying |