Regarding Linux or Knopplix.
Knopplix has been doing Live Boot for several releases I have 5.1 and will be
downloading 5.2 shortly. I heard that with 5.2 there is a qmenu and kmenu which
you got virtual boot os in from the host.
I also on my WinXP machine have the Wx Widgets (2.6.3) tool kit (but have not
used it too much), I used to do MFC programming but it's been a few long years,
I would not mind helping but my work schedule is frantic till May. I know C,
C++, C# and basic java (plus a host of scripting languages for both UNIX and
Windows).
Not sure what I can help with or what your requirements are.
Regards~
Don Lazov
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From: Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 2:46:14 PM
Subject: Re: [CBML] Announcement: CyberBoard... A Change of Direction
>Given the direction Vista is taking, an open O/S may be the way to go.
> Otherwise I can foresee a dark future where Cyberboard gameboxes will
>become DRM'd ...
>(Besides people just saying Vista is crap and no one wants it.)
Not if *I* have anything to say about it. :)
I have a Vista Ultimate DVD (courtesy of MSDN) sitting right here. I won't
upgrade to it. I don't really see any benefit (except for the corporations
who want everything locked down--and I'm certainly not paying for that!).
My neighbor bought a cheapo laptop with 512MB running Vista Home Basic.
VERY slow! I can't believe they could sell that. (Then it dawned on me....
When people return to Best Buy to complain they just sell them Geek Squad's
RAM upgrade. Hmmm... not so dumb after all.) Then he added 1GB to it and
now it performs pretty well.
I was helping him install some software, copy some files, etc. .... Sheesh.
Constant accept or deny prompts. Then I saw the Apple commercial about
this. They were spot on! What a PITA.
I just upgraded the moterboard on my daughter's system. It's LEGAL full
retail copy of WinXP wanted activation (this I expected). It then denied
activation due to too many activations. This was the third activation.
Ticked me off. I used VMWare Converter (very cool tool) and cloned the
system into a virtual machine. Then I slapped Ubuntu Feisty Fawn onto the
machine (hey look... no activation prompt!). I now run her WinXP system
inside a VMWare session from within Ubuntu. That'll show 'em! :)
Her friends (she's 23) think she's cool because she's running Linux. Linux
apparently gives you street cred. If young adults are feeling this way
about Linux that can't be good news for M$oft.
The thing is... Linux has gotten pretty damn nice over the last couple of
years. Also the installs (the early bane of Linux) for major distros are
getting very easy and smooth.
Dale
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