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Hey DS

Dogg of Demise
posted 02-11-2001 04:50 PM
What version of Linux are you useing (I'm thinking Mandrake looks pretty good) and what are you running as a windows emulator?


Wyspa
posted 02-12-2001 07:43 AM
I'm not DS, but I'll toss in my 2 cents. My machine at work is running Mandrake Linux. Most folks here use Redhat, but Mandrake seems to have more features for a networked installation. Redhat definitely easier to install. I am using Vmware's Win emulator to get MS Office stuff. It seems to work fine. Can notice a bit of slowdown on stuff, but not enough to be irritating. Course, running Word or Excel on a PIII 850 MHz you can give up speed and never know it.


Dogg of Demise
posted 02-12-2001 12:39 PM
Red Hat is easier to install? I have a copy of Red Hat 5.something and it looked painful. It started talking about having to figger out the right sizes for a whole mess of partitions and I just kinda gave up on it. I thought Mandrake had wizards to help do all of this?


Varzil
posted 02-12-2001 02:25 PM
5.x with Redhat was not as easy to install as the latest versions. The newest Mandrake 7.2 is fairly easy to install.


rosefix
posted 02-13-2001 09:47 AM
I'm using SuSE 7.0 and if one is using only 'mainstream' hardware from big manufacturers the install is easier than windows, only probs i had was with my geforce 2 (needed special Nvidia rpms for Xfree86 4.01) and the epson usb scanner which required the latest sane version to run properly. In few days i should receive SuSE 7.1 with the new 2.4 kernel and many program updates.


Dogg of Demise
posted 02-13-2001 11:13 AM
So Rosefix are you running Demise on this under a windows emulator and if so which one?


Trevain
posted 02-13-2001 05:49 PM
If you want to run windows programs under linux, you can use wine. Wine translates the windows runtime environment into something that linux understands, unfortunately the entire runtime environment is not supported. Recently a company has come out with a patch for wine that provides directx support but only for video and not audio. The patch can be found here: http://www.transgaming.com/ but it requires that you compile wine yourself. If you want to run windows under linux you can use vmware as stated by Wyspa but it is not free and it emulates a seperate computer environment under linux allowing you to install various os's and run them from linux. You are still running windows only you are running it and linux at the same time. This gives you the capability to run windows and use all your windows software. The downside is that it is still windows with all its various hangups. If you don't want to run windows at all then wine is your best bet but don't bet on wine being able to run all of your software.


JP
posted 02-14-2001 09:22 PM
Redhat 7.0 is out. Corel Linux is okay. TurboLinux is a modified Redhat Linux. Slackware is the good old standby. And there are a few others. I use Redhat and Turbo, also have Corel but that came off quick after MS got into it and some of their CD's no longer contained the source code. You can also get the new WinLin 4.0 for Windows emulation and give that a try as opposed to wine.


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