Glad to hear you are mostly "there" now, I guess it is all frustrating if things don't just work - but (I'm sure you already know!) linux still isn't quite there yet for the "Plug'n'play" generation and often you come up against things that you would never had thought about in Windows. I'm still getting used to that too. Have you tried iptables-restore? At work at the moment and don't have access to the man pages to check for sure! I agree that application use is very personal, thats why I still use EAC under VM. It seems that you are already using VMWare from your last post? NLite is a program (windows if I remember) that can take a windows install add in the hotfixes/updates and any commonly used programs, take out all the sh*&te that Windows puts in that you don't need and make a single install disk. This can even be setup to run unattended with auto setting up of user accounts etc. Google for it. I got my install down to 280 Meg! So I run VMWare in linux and install the NLite'd version of my XP. This runs like a regular machine on my P4 3gig laptop - so you don't need oodles of power (even with a lowly 1gig of RAM). Its only for EAC and some very specific work software to analyse XRays that can't be found for Linux :(
Everyones _computing_ experience is different, just see the varied posts for setting up our very own squeezecenter on windows in this very forum. My journey into linux probably hasn't been that different to yours, I expected problems along the way - and boy have I had some!, but the great thing about the linux world is the community that follows it. To them I owe almost everything to getting me to where I currently am - a novice!!! Always happy to help if I can. Nic -- DrNic SqueezeCenter Version: 7.2 - 22900 - Debian - EN - utf8 Perl Version: 5.8.8 i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi MySQL Version: 5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.1 Platform Architecture: i686-linux System: T2-WHS A3i (Intel Atom) Headless all wired Gigabit LAN ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DrNic's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=92 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53814 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
