'73, W9FIF
Message: 3
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:45:16 -0500
From: doc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Re: email to Internet without a PC ?
I use Puppy Linux and dual booting, triple booting,
etc. are relatively trivial with no crashing problems.
I think a more basic Linux helps as well as avoiding
use of the MS version of windows except when absolutely
necessary -- it is unstable in all of its iterations.
We are really close to the place when everything worth
doing can be done using a Linux-based app or run under
Linux using a Linux->MS code interface such as the open
source/freeware Wine http://www.winehq.com/ or the
commercial app VMware http://www.vmware.com/.
Those who refuse to port their apps over to Linux
(and Apple) will eventually face superior competition
from those who offer consumers a more complete choice.
Examples of consumer-friendly and successful cross-platform
apps include Firefox, Thunderbird, Seamonkey, mplayer,
OpenOffice, etc.
We certainly need cross-platform friendly digital mode
apps if they are going to find widespread use and if they
are to meet EMCOMM requirements to be highly redundant.
What sense does it make to be MS-centric only to discover
that just when you need your app MS has crashed again or
been hacked for the 10,000th time?
IMHO, YMMV ... 73, doc kd4e
I would caution anyone from trying to set up a dual boot system. I had
done this a number of times and had pretty good luck but also have had
one case where I managed somehow to damage the MBR (Master Boot Record)
with the Linux install and had to totally redo the drive from scratch.
The best way is to have a dedicated system.
Eh? Even if you hose the MBR, it's trivial to fix the drive.
1) Just boot a Rescue or Live CD, and have it re-install
GRUB/Lilo/bootloader of your choice, and you're back in business.
2) Forgot to make a rescue CD? Boot a DOS system disk, and run
'fdisk /mbr', so you can boot Windows, then download the rescue or live
image,
and do step 1.
This virus free email was
created/edited on a G4 iBook,
Apple's lightest, most portable,
Macintosh.
