On Wednesday 11 November 2009 18:25:17 John Beardmore wrote: > My laptop has trashed its XP boot disk. > > As I'm rebuilding from scratch, I though I might as well put a more up > to date OS on it. > > This machine has to be an MS OS, but as the reviews of windows 7 suggest > that they haven't made a complete vista of it, I thought I might give > that a go. So... > > Has anybody used Scribus 1.3.6 under windows 7 ? (And for that matter > Gimp and possibly Inkscape ?) > > Further, is it worth considering the 64 bit version of windows 7 ? Does > that run the 32 bit scribus builds OK ? > > And in the long run, is it expected that there will be 64 bit compiles > of Scribus for windows 7 ? > > > Cheers, J/.
You might find that the two partition method will allow you to run all those software packages without difficulty on a Linux partition and yet have an MSWin XP partition for those programs that run only on that OS. In fact I have several partitions but I almost never use the Windows one. One useful program, Quantas, won't run on Slackware Linux 13 so I keep a Slack 12.2 partition around just for that one app. I have a Win XP install disk and key. For my purposes I see no reason to upgrade to Win 7. Can anyone suggest one? Vista is of course another story. -- John Culleton "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
