On Thursday 08 November 2001 23:56 pm, Welby McRoberts wrote: > Hello, > I don't remember if I've posted to this lug list b4 but hello if I > didn�t :-) > I Have a Evesham Micros Voyager 6000 Laptop. It has been back to > MiTAC ( the people that Evesham buy laptops off to resell) more > times than I've had hot dinners. Each time they have replaced the > laptops HD the last one did not caused major problems with every > os. Nothing would install! They have recently replaced it with a > slower & smaller drive. Windows 98 (as supplied with the computer) > is running slower than normal and so I am contemplating changing > OS. I am just wondering if there would be any problems with running > Linux (I was given a few Linux CD's the other day) on the computer. > It�s a PIII 500 with 128mb of ram. 6.4GB of HD. I would however > need to keep windows on the machine because I have a _shudder_ > WindowsCE handheld computer and I need to use a few programs like > avantgo and Outlook to synchronise with the WinCE device. > > I currently use ICQ & MSN and I am wondering if it would be > possible to still be able to use these in linux.( I currently use a > proxy server on one of my other machines @ home) > > Also I would like to know if there is any Graphical C(++) compilers > for linux. And If not is it easy to compile programs using a > command line? > > Thanks In Advance > Welby >
Hi Welby You may have missed it but a couple of weeks ago micoshaft shut out a bunch of non ie browsers on MSN. They have since relented, but it doesn't give me a warm feeling about future prospects for using MSN if your'e not using m$ products. -- Regards pete -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
