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From: arnold on 10 Mar 2010 16:35 On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:04:58 +0100, Tosspot wrote: <snip> > > [1] Unusual for XP, I reckon it was the first MS release that actually > worked. Windows 2000 worked well for me. arnold
From: Tosspot on 11 Mar 2010 01:50 On 03/10/2010 10:35 PM, arnold wrote: > On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:04:58 +0100, Tosspot wrote: > > > <snip> >> >> [1] Unusual for XP, I reckon it was the first MS release that actually >> worked. > > Windows 2000 worked well for me. I skipped that. We had NT at work which was pretty much rock solid, but I went from '98SE to XP. And, if truth be known, I'd still be on XP if it wasn't for the continual hassle every time the hardware changes and it chatting back to MS all the time. I tried SUSE, it did everything I needed, so I stayed with it.
From: JT on 11 Mar 2010 03:33 On 11/03/10 08:47, houghi wrote: > Tosspot wrote: > >>> Windows 2000 worked well for me. >>> >> I skipped that. We had NT at work which was pretty much rock solid, but >> I went from '98SE to XP. >> > Windows95 (without the IE) worked well enough for me. > Stopped at 3.11 and never looked at newer versions of windows for private use. Hearing what others say about it plus what I see on business laptops doesn't make me want to go back to Windows-'Whatever release' either. And that's not only a cost issue. > >> And, if truth be known, I'd still be on XP if >> it wasn't for the continual hassle every time the hardware changes and >> it chatting back to MS all the time. I tried SUSE, it did everything I >> needed, so I stayed with it. >> > There were several reasons I went with Linux. > It looked nicer, I could do more then change the regedit, I had > transparent terminals, I could learn much more by myself, I was bored > with Windows and had clicked each and every button already, I did not > want to break copyrights to run good software. > > So I went and bought first a few magazines. Tried Redhat and Slack, but > SuSE was the one on a magazine that I was able to install without any > problems. Then I skipped a version and then I bought a boxed set. 5CDs > of open software. These guys must be crazy. Since then I have bought > almost all versions of SuSE up untill 10.0. Then they started sending me > the boxed set. (not the last version) > > Now I just download them, what was not an option in the beginning. > > The thing is that I have not used Winows for so long that I have no > admin knowledge anymore. Once in a while I do a Windows install and > realize how complicated it is, compared to installing any larger Linux > distro. And I am not just talking about the registry code > > But then the main difference is that Windows comes pre-installed, so > people think they do an installation, but actually most of the time they > don't. > > houghi > Ditto: all installations I do are by downloading the DVD and than add repo's to my liking to upgrade to OSS/Packman versions of major packages. But of course: if your bandwidth is limited: buying a DVD might be your only option. Although there _is_ an Ubuntu initiative to freely distribute DVD's. As a Suse user, I'm not familiar with it though. -- Kind regards, JT
From: Harold Stevens on 11 Mar 2010 05:23 In <4b98aadc$0$22916$e4fe514c(a)news.xs4all.nl> JT: [Snip...] > Ubuntu initiative to freely distribute DVD's FWIW... AFAIK kubuntu CDs are free (as in speech/beer--up to point, obviously) but the DVDs are not: https://shipit.kubuntu.org/ YMMV; HTH... -- Regards, Weird (Harold Stevens) * IMPORTANT EMAIL INFO FOLLOWS * Pardon any bogus email addresses (wookie) in place for spambots. Really, it's (wyrd) at airmail, dotted with net. DO NOT SPAM IT. I toss GoogleGroup (http://twovoyagers.com/improve-usenet.org/).
From: Eef Hartman on 12 Mar 2010 04:51
Tosspot <Frank.Leake(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> I still run MSDOS 6.22 with Windows 3.1, WIndows ME, Windows 2000 and >> WIndows XP as virtual machines on my main Opensuse Linux box. They all >> run fine. > > "I still run MSDOS 6.22" At home I also got a MS-Dos (6.21, I didn't need the drivespace addition of 6.22) and Windows (for Workgroups) 3.11 system. It is also the first machine I ever installed Linux (Slackware 1.1.2) on and has been a dual boot Dos/Windows vs Linux machine until last year (it is a 486dx2/66 with 16 MB of RAM). As the machine got too old and small for modern linuxes I removed it, so now it's a pure MS-Dos / Window machine (mostly because of my old DBase and SuperCalc applicatons and as I got the machine anyway). -- ******************************************************************* ** Eef Hartman, Delft University of Technology, dept. SSC/ICT ** ** e-mail: E.J.M.Hartman(a)tudelft.nl - phone: +31-15-278 82525 ** ******************************************************************* |