At 10:00 AM 10/14/2001 -0400, you wrote: >Linux "can" be installed with any windows version. However, if you are >not familiar with Linux, you may want to not attempt to put it on your >main machine, especially if it is your only machine. I would recommend >doing a complete backup of your system. Also, you'll need to have an >extra hard drive, or be able to partition your current hard drive.
There is a version that can be installed on a FAT16 or FAT32 system without re-partitioning your hard drive called Dragon Linux ... http://www.dragonlinux.net It's like a 290M ZIP download ... It seems to be based on Slackware Linux ... All my systems are NTFS so I couldn't try it, but I do have a Mandrake box up and I'm learning Linux ... If you don't like Dragon Linux, they say it is as simple as deleting the subdir that it installs to ... I've installed Red Hat, FreeBSD and Mandrake but don't have any experience with DragonLinux ... So far I have preferred the Mandrake 8.1 distribution, but will eventually bring up a BSD box to have both versions of PC Unix running (Linus's version and AT&T's version) ... If I ever get to know Linux better, I'll try a HLDS server on that platform and see how it goes ... Running W2K and Linux, I have seen an incredible performance boost in Linux with simple machines ... Linux certainly seems to shine in the arena of cheaper hardware ... In other words, you can use Linux on a P2 350mHz and it would compare to W2K on a P3 750mHz ... I don't mean to start any Linux/Win flame wars ... I am just of the assumption that both have different things to offer, and I ain't proud, I'll exploit them both, but heck, Linux is FREE! If someone in the Linux world would write a plugin (or mod I think they call it) to interpret VBScript via ASP pages, there'd be no stopping Linux and XP would die a quick death ... _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
