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Originally Posted by oneminizut
Do you remember what Distro of Linux it was? I'm very curious to know. I hope it wasn't Suse.
My answer was......Make a computer that will run Linux. For just about any Linux Distro. We need hardware that is not made for M$ OS. We need real computer hardware. If you have that, than it will run Linux. Let us run whatever Distro we want.
Most people said about the same thing......
I think it was over 35 questions......
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Carlene, you crack me up! 
They called me for that survey too, and they are going to offer an unspecified Linux version on their consumer lines.
Y'all on XP vs Pista vs Linux again? Geez JR you sure vent a lot. Don't you have a dawg to kick around?
Originally Posted by JR182PILOT
I did a survey a few weeks ago for Dell. The survey was on using Linux and if I would buy a Dell system running a Linux OS. That tells me Dell see's the hand writing on the wall...
Y'all on XP vs Pista vs Linux again? Geez JR you sure vent a lot. Don't you have a dawg to kick around?
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I have every thing from an 80-86 to present day. Have run the earliest versions of Dos to XP. I still say that Win 3.11 for Work groups was the most stable OS that Gates ever had. And if I could Write the code to run todays software on it I would. I hate 95 and everything sence. I can't upgrade to Vista even if I wanted to as my ISP dosn't support it yet.
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From: Graham, WA
Originally Posted by arctic y block
I have every thing from an 80-86 to present day. Have run the earliest versions of Dos to XP. I still say that Win 3.11 for Work groups was the most stable OS that Gates ever had. And if I could Write the code to run todays software on it I would. I hate 95 and everything sence. I can't upgrade to Vista even if I wanted to as my ISP dosn't support it yet.
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Originally Posted by oneminizut
Do you have a link? I'm off to bed now but I'd like to read it with coffee bright and early. Gnight.
...Do a search on Dell Linux Survey. You will like what you fine. Last edited by JR182PILOT; Apr 15, 2007 at 01:27 PM.
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Originally Posted by oneminizut
When I come visit I'll get you a sweet Linux box running. Then you won't have to worry about hardware or software!
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Originally Posted by arctic y block
Morning John, I play MS Flight sim 2004 with a ton of download and tweeks. Is there anyway that it and Starband will work on a Linux system? Been looking at it for years. But never tryed it yet.
arctic y blockYou could use something like this VirtualBox. www.virtualbox.org/ I have downloaded both ver's. XP & Linux. I have yet to try them out. Not much free time. Understand it's good software....
John will know more.......
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From: Graham, WA
Originally a program called WINE (Acronym: Wine Is Not an Emulator) which was a good try but hard for the everyday user to setup and I believe it ran solely in the terminal, I could be wrong. Then came WineX which had a GUI and made things easier for the everyday user, but still you cannot run that many games on it. These programs are free.
Somewhat more recent, a company called TransGaming developed a program called Cedega. This program allows you to run DirectX9 games... but not all of them. However, there is some sort of fee to use it. I don't know how much because when I want to play games I just throw my XP harddrive in and go.
Heres a link you might want to check out:
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...1628432,00.asp
Somewhat more recent, a company called TransGaming developed a program called Cedega. This program allows you to run DirectX9 games... but not all of them. However, there is some sort of fee to use it. I don't know how much because when I want to play games I just throw my XP harddrive in and go.
Heres a link you might want to check out:
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...1628432,00.asp
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Good info Guy's. So installing another Hard Drive is no problem. Setting it up as a dual boot system (one or the other Drive) might be. I don't remember seeing the option in the BIOS Setup. Now this could be fun. But maybe to much in a thread. I think ya both have my E-Mail? If not PM me. Ya, this could be more fun than trying to land a 737-400 in Juneau. HAAAA
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From: Graham, WA
If you want to setup a dual boot system it would be quite easy to tell you how, but too long to type. I'll email you some specifics, then you ould download your distro of choice. I don't know what speed your ISP provides but if it's dialup then me sending a copy in the mail woul be much quicker. 
Anyways, I'll email you after I get some more work done. If I forget then email me to remind me.
Anyways, I'll email you after I get some more work done. If I forget then email me to remind me.
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Dell Links
Dell open-source
www.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/nseries?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd&redirect=1
www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/alliances/en/linux?c=us&cs=555&l=en&s=biz
The Big Links
http://linux.dell.com/
http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archi...gory/1021.aspx
www.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/nseries?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd&redirect=1
www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/alliances/en/linux?c=us&cs=555&l=en&s=biz
The Big Links
http://linux.dell.com/
http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archi...gory/1021.aspx
Last edited by JR182PILOT; Apr 15, 2007 at 10:28 PM.
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From: Graham, WA
Yeah. But the only problem is that the best Red Hat Distro is a pay for OS ( which is fine) still much cheaper than Vista. Suse sold out to MS anyways. They are now developing together. How sweet. 