On Monday 30 August 2004 21:39, Doug McGarrett wrote:
I should think it would be foolish not to have the capability of XP. Suppose you suddenly need a program that's only available in Windows?
Vi, Emacs, Tux Racer, Doom, Quake, Unreal Tournament, Mutt... I think it's safe to say the things I use work fine on Linux alone. I don't have some big problem with XP, and I very well may dual boot, but I'm not sure. I don't like dual booting, and the laptop, with SUSE or Slackware installed, will be more than enough for em to do my homework, take notes in my college, do some security testing, and watch Movies and play MP3s. XMMS is my choice player, if I have X loaded at all. Otherwise I use mpg321 or mpg123.
With a 30 gig HD, you could certainly allocate 10 gig or so to XP, and still have plenty for Linux.
Maybe XP will run on a lot less, I don't know. I use two hd's to keep the OS's apart.
XP should install fine on a Gig or two. I don't think 10 Gigs is needed, I'm thinking that if I dual boot, it will be more like 5 Gigs I give it. I don't use that much in XP, mainly just to watch the porn vids that won't play in Linux because of Codecs for Windows Media Player not working. At least I'm honest. ;)
(I'm temporarily stuck in XP, and thank God I have this capability. Otherwise, I would have to reformat and lose all the Linux stuff. I can at least try to salvage the Linux system data, from here.)
I'm not partial to MS, but there are certain advantages to having the capability to use their stuff.
Yea, I agree, having to worry about Viruses and Worms, and rebooting for every update installed, and needing a butt load of RAM for the GUI and Kernel is a great reason to use XP. ;)
Let us know how the Dell works out, please.
--doug
It should be here in like a week, so when it comes in and I install it, I'll try and do some documentation. I've written installation guides for about 10 OSs, and a tutorial on securing SUSE Linux for antionline.com Looking online, I've seen people who seem to have problems with this laptop, but it seems like all of them were because of that "I'm a newbie and don't understand crap" problem. Like using an SMP Kernel on a laptop for example... *Sigh* Heh. Hopefully I don't have these problems. HT Processing technology seems to bring more burdens than smiles. Thanks to everyone who replied, the help was needed, and I hadn't ever gone to the Mobile Tux web page. Thanks again, -Allen / Gore / SlackWareWolf / The BOFH :)