[Nottingham] Newbie intro

[Martin]

David Aldred wrote:
> In message <200405101815.48277.danny at rootshell.be>, danny 
> <danny at rootshell.be> writes
[...]
>>> Give me a fair few months and it might just
>>> replace Windows in the house entirely.
>>
>> after a month (At the most) of running both windows and linux i got 
>> rid of
>> windows.
> 
> That's impressive.  We'll see what market resistance I get!  (Mind you, 
[...]

I can boot into a vernerable solid old version of Win95C, or a heavily 
tweaked reasonable solid version of WinXP-Pro, and I just have no need 
to do so. They've not been booted up for some considerable time now.


>> Been able to do all my homework on my computer using OpenOffice or
>> Abiword most windows apps (including games) run okay on it (through
>> winex3....a windows emulator).
> 
> Wine is certainly something I want to give a try.  Could bridge some gaps!

Wine works surprisingly well. Had it running on here for just two apps 
(now defunct). Try it, although you can usually find native linux ways 
for whatever apps. Most of the useful stuff has been programmed.

[...]
> On the subject of getting hold of Linux software, is there anywhere in 
> Nottingham which supplies such things on CD?  I know I can mail order 
> it, but sometimes I get impatient!
> 
> Downloading might be the answer sometimes, but I'm not broadbanded!

I'm sure I would be ameanable to burn some CDs of Mandrake 10.0.1 for a 
deserving cause...


Cheers,
(Hint (;-))
Martin



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