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  LiveWire / Technical Forums / MacOS vs. Windows vs. Linux / Viewing Topic

im moving permanently 2 linux
rite now
Replies: 13 — Last Post Oct. 19, 2003 11:39pm by gotdilbert
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has anyone else done this/planning to? im writing the cd's from *.iso rite now  :D

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Yes i have thought and done it many times but for some reason i always need windows for 1 thing or anover so........ I have linux on my laptop and Windows 2k on my gameing machine and then Linux on my server.... works out quite well

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I've done that, however I agree with vitamin, you'll probably need Windows around for one thing or another.

Congratulations - may I ask what distribution you're using?

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"The mystery of God in their mouth was
an elephant -- as lightning,
you know."

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Umm yes what distro are you using...RedHat 8 or mandrake 9 is nice:)

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Im using RH 8.0, luckily i dont do that much gaming, and the games i play (quake) u can get in linux neway. erm ive got another machin on win xp in another room just in case. they didnt ship RH 8.0 with ANY mp3 decoding software    , but its all sorted now  :D kewl msn messenger rip-off for it as well.

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Heh, the mp3 library is quite easy to install. I use aMSN :)

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"The mystery of God in their mouth was
an elephant -- as lightning,
you know."
9:50 am on Feb. 22, 2003 | Joined Dec. 2002 | 756 Days Active
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yeah me 2 (amsn that is) shame it cant be iconised or summit.

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AndreBSD

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Well if you need windows for something, just run vmware ontop of your *nix platform. I got freebsd 4.8 and run xp ontop of vmware2 (newest version to work on freebsd).. so i can still do my video chatting; though im glad wine almost runs it too :)

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Yes I also use VMWare its well tidy... I highly recommend it for people wanting to learn as well...

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I would move over permanently but I can't get a modem to work.  All the modems I've tried seem to be winmodems.  Does anyone know of a modem that would work with linux (56k) and where I could buy one?  I'm in the UK.

Thanks  :)

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Use either a Hardware ISA modem... if u have an old box or I use a 56K external Modem.... They work great...

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OK thanks.
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Not a problem if there is Just Pm me..

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gotdilbert


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The easiest solution is to multi-boot. I have a laptop with a 60 gig hard drive, and I'm happy with a Redhat installation with Windows XP and a GRUB boot loader, which makes the multi-booting process so much easier.  Another commonly available boot-loader is LILO.  Most linux osses have their own customized boot loaders, in this case, I personally think that the GRUB boot loader for redhat linux 9 is much nicer both graphically and functionally.

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