Carl:

Slackware has zipslack, and if my understanding is correct, you can boot
it right off windows and go into linux, when done with zipslack, you just
terminate like any other app...

I am sure you also know about wine and you can run most any windows
software on the linux boxes with it...

I have never toyed with zipslack even though I have a bunch of zip drives
here, and I think you can install zipslack on any spare partition (or hd)
you have... I run slack 9 with an updated 2.6 kernel...

That would fit most hams who are windows only users, but wish to run a
open source linux app or two for some experimentation...

http://www.slackware.com/zipslack/
http://www.slackware.com

John

On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 02:13:22 +0000, Carl R. Stevenson wrote:


"John Smith" wrote in message
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Carl:

I can't say the lack of anything in linux forces me to use windows...
however, the lack of commercial video games written for linux forces me to
revert to windows to run them... "Neverwinter Nights" is an exception, and
is ported to linux, however, the game is now a few years old and I went
on to others and this is the main reason my private computers sport
windows also...

The only factor truly forcing windows on me is other windows users, and I
am paid 85%+ of the time to develop on the windows platform because of
them, and almost exclusively for NT these days (thin clients like cell
phones are an exception)...

Anything windows can do--Linux can do, Linux can just do it better...
windows on the other hand cannot do all which linux can--mostly this is
because of MS having to hold the source secret and pursue proprietary
ends... what is good for MS pockets is not good for the
consumer--generally...

John

John,

I don't disagree ... there are applications (CAD programs and others) that I
*must* use, and running dual-boot and having to shift back and forth and not
have "everything in one place" is just too annoying for me.

I had a Linux box running Fedora Core, but had to repurpose it for something
else and haven't gotten a new machine yet to run Linux on ... but I will.

73,
Carl - wk3c