Hi Mike, What are the other Windows apps you use? I've been using Linux for a while and so may be able to identify 'nix apps you can use or whether the windows ones will run in Wine.
Regards, Patrick MikeMurdock wrote: > A bad joke? Hmm. Seems like someone has a lot of issues with people > breaking into his system. I'd find new friends. > I installed gOS onto an MT3418 laptop and installed all patches > without issues. Ran very quickly and everything functioned as > expected. It was also quite secure with no breakins whatsoever. The > only issue I had was that the wireless in the MT3418 sucks balls so I > had to buy a separate wireless tool. Tested it was pleased with gOS. > My only issue is that i need too many other windows apps right now to > go completely opensource and run that exclusively. So...back to > ummm...VISTA which also sucks balls. > > Mike > > On Jan 2, 11:27 am, CMM <[email protected]> wrote: >> First things first: I did not use 8.10 repositories. I used 8.04 LTS >> (Hardy Heron) repositories. >> >> Broken: Dropped into single user mode. >> >> My concern was keeping my system secure, as in closing known >> vulnerabilities. >> >> It doesn't matter now. I've given up on gOS and basically consider >> the distribution to be a bad joke foisted on the community for >> marketing reasons. Stock Ubuntu or Vector Linux or pretty much >> anything else just works better on my hardware even though it came >> with gOS preinstalled. > > > -- Registered GNU/Linux User 368634 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gOS Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/goslinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
