One of the group members gave me an old pentium 2. I am going to put
Windows 98 in it and let him run the games on that.
Ed Gorman wrote:
Virtutal Box is runs win32 pretty good. Lots of how-to's on the web for
creating one, especially on ubuntugeek.org <http://ubuntugeek.org>. I
ran win7 rc1 nicely on 1gb ram, never crashed. www.virtualbox.org
<http://www.virtualbox.org/>
Seeing a huge volume of infections since Jan 1st. Make sure all
security fixes are in place in win32, antivirus software up to date, and
use 2 or 3 different spyware detectors (make sure malware bytes is one
of them). Occassionally use a boot cd w/clam to scan the windows pc if
you still dual boot/other pc...
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Mark Wallace <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I am not familiar with a vm. They run too slow and choppy in Wine.
My concern was more general as I don't duel boot.
John D. Mort wrote:
If the sysreq's are minimal on those old games, you could run
them in
a VM. Significantly fewer concerns over viruses then.
--
John D. Mort
http://john.mort.net <http://john.mort.net/>
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Mark Wallace
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I put Windows back into one system so that my son could play
some old games
from his sister's youth and he picked up the same virus
twice in four weeks.
I won't let him go online in Windows.
I wonder if you are more vulnerable to windows viruses if
you duel boot
(because you are reaching across the partitions to get
things) or if you use
Wine (it might run a windows virus)
xe22 wrote:
Mark Wallace wrote:
And the beauty of Linux is that later, when you hear
that everybody has
developed drivers and 64 bit edtions, you can
upgrade on a rainy afternoon
for free. Just be sure to back up our data on a
separate media.
--
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Newburgh, New York 12550-3802
Telephone: (845) 566-0586
Absolutely. The Linux system turned out to be much
better and easier
than I expected when I first got into it. The power is
awesome.
The majority does not know what they are missing.
Louis
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