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Skriven 2006-10-12 20:20:00 av CHARLES ANGELICH (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av GERALD MILLER
Ärende: Vista anti-piracy
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Hello Gerald - 

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GM>>> I'm trashing the W98SE system (on a 6.18MB HDD that is
GM>>> being run on a Pentium III MMX 200MHz box with 128MB of
GM>>> RAM) in the New Year in favour of investigating Ubuntu or
GM>>> the other one... So, even if "I've got mine", I'm not
GM>>> keeping it for much longer. 

CA>> I would recommend creating an imge file backup of at least
CA>> the C: drive. You _may_ find it enjoyable to install W98SE
CA>> using M$ Virtual PC on your XP system. I have DOS, W31,
CA>> and W2K all available on this box via M$ VPC and I'm
CA>> loving it! 

GM> Braggart!!! 

No, just making a point. You _can_ have your cake and eat it
too! 

GM> Can't see a point in creating an image file of W98SE to run
GM> in a Virtual PC session on the XP -- 

Once your W98SE is gone you will start to remember really good
software you had installed there that _may_ not install onto
WinXP. It happens. I have some really good animated GIF
software installed into my W31 OS that I've found no equal to
for W2K and up OS. 

GM> I expect I would get enough "detecting new hardware" to
GM> discourage even you. 

Not really. W98SE would "see" an emulated PC that is somewhat
generic. 

GM>>> Seems to me, that if a computer can run W9x (and this one
GM>>> does, but not well), then it should likely be able to run
GM>>> some flavor of *NIX? 

CA>> No, not really. That's one of the myths that linux people
CA>> propagate but recent 'distros' of linux are as bloated and
CA>> processor hungry as Windows. Newer linux is intended to
CA>> use a GUI just as Windows has and suffers because of it.
CA>> Only one FIDO linux user ever installed linux on a '386
CA>> (and proved it) and he needed 8 meg of memory to do that
CA>> (few '386s had 8 meg installed from the factory). Another
CA>> myth that is really not true - installing on '386s. 

GM> I don't know what to say or what to expect when I'm finally
GM> ready for a 'distro'. I'll probably go looking for a
GM> command line version... 

I can only recommend using mainstream distributions that have a
'history' of continuing updates and support. Choosing the
"latest and greatest" supported by one or two people could
leave you high and dry when they discover women. ;-) 

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