On Saturday 16 August 2003 09:00 am, Bryan Fullerton wrote: > And if you do that how do you run your tons of windows software? > > Bryan Fullerton > White Knight Gifts > www.youcandobusiness.com >
> > ... or run Linux, pay no huge Licence fees (or act criminally..) & have the > joys of a virus free environment. (& I don't even run a virus checker!) > Mandrake Linux is good, or if you want to try before you buy- Knoppix. > Knoppix boots off the CD, and uses a normal formatted windows harddrive. > > regards Doug > > ps: Give Bill the flick! There are usually equivalent (free) programs to replace those ones. (most distributions come with a lot of programs you will need.) There are ways to run M$ compatible software if there is something that cannot be replaced (eg Wine project, Win4Lin, etc.) Wine works with many programs, but does require fine tuning to get things working sometimes. There are some really good programs in the Linux suite now: Open Office now will reliably edit & resave .xls & .doc files & be M$ office compatible; Gnucash is a great accounting program for home/small business, there are heaps of Audio, video, & graphics programs, many of which are now also ported to Windows. Linux does take some retraining, but there are local users groups out there that will help, & many help sites on the web. I would suggest trying Knoppix first, as it boots from a CD, & saves a small config file on your windows partition if you want to use it again. It is possible to dual partition your drive, & use Windows when necessary. I used thia approach for the first 8 months, until I realised I never started windows any more, so now only have a Linux partition. I personnally like Mandrake, but RedHat is also good. Suse is a very good distribution also, with a commercial windows emulator in the Commercial release (ie paid for). I email work home from my office (.doc & .xls files mainly), work on them at night, then resend them back to work to open with the dreaded M$ packages. I have found no problems now for the types of file I work on. So people, give it a go! It IS worth the effort. regards Doug (a Linux user for 3 years now) ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for Your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at Myinks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US & Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
