Re: Paul's programs with Lindows

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Original poster: "Jim Lux by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>

And, you can buy a mail order PC from Wal-Mart with Lindows preinstalled for
$200... (well, $199 list, but you'll need to add sales tax and shipping).. I
have one of these in the WinXP version (extra $100 for WinXP!) for my
daughter.. it works fairly well.. Keyboard and mouse are what you'd expect
in a $200 PC, but all the same, 1.1 GHz Athlon, 128MB, 20GB, CDROM and
network I/F isn't all that bad...


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Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 9:08 PM
Subject: Paul's programs with Lindows


 > Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>
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 > Hi All,
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 >     If you want to run Paul's Linux programs (
 > http://www.abelian.demon.co.uk/tssp/ ) but are trapped in the Windows
 > world.  I can recommend Lindows OS3.0.  LindowsOS3 is a remarkably refined
 > Windows style Linux interface and OS that is super simple to install and
 > use.  The background is all true blue linux but it is designed to make
 > things real easy for Windows users to catch on.  It installed on my laptop
 > in a spare drive partition (nice dual boot) very easily and auto detected
 > everything right down to the wireless card, battery monitor, and Toshiba's
 > odd sound card.  I am extremely impressed with it!!  A very simple to use
 > Linux for us Windows dummies ;-))  About $120 but you are allowed to copy
 > it to all "your" PCs and they give you a super nice auto download tool to
 > install things like StarOffice, GCC, GIMP... brainlessly (and free
 > ;-))  They have things like GCC (for Paul's C++ programs) and a ton of the
 > usual Linux tools from the easy install site too.
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 > I just compiled things like TCMA with GCC (Paul gives the magic commands)
 > and it worked right off.  Here is TCMA crunching through a scope capture:
 >
 > http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/P6060015a.JPG
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 > I was able to download and edit the picture from my Olympus C-3000 with
 > Lindows too!!  So If you want to play with Paul's programs but know zilch
 > about Linux, this is definitely the ticket!!!  It does run much slower on
 > the 450MHZ AMD (and sucks 25% of the battery per run!) than it does on the
 > fire breathing 64 bit Sun Spark machine running Solaris, but the ease of
 > use makes up for that.  Lindows does the floppy mounting and all goofy
 > stuff very easily and it does not loose me in any Linux technical
 > stuff.  It is hard to tell it is Linux until you look at the file
 > directories and see all that BIN, DEV, USR, VAR... stuff.  It is even
 > supposed to run regular Windows programs too, but why...
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 > So now there is now excuse not to be a Linux guru too ;-))  OK, I will
 > never be 1% as smart as Paul at all this stuff, but at least I can run the
 > programs very easily now!!  It also give me clues to learning Linux so
 > maybe I can talk better to the Sun...
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 > Cheers,
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 >     Terry
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