Battle Pope
Well-Known Member
lol no
Windows apps are definitely NOT solaris compatible.
Windows apps are definitely NOT solaris compatible.
Windows Vista
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Citizen_Insane
Senior Member
Well, I can't get Alcohol or d-tools to install because theres some problem with the virtal drives in Vista so I think I'm going to give up for a while. Every time I try to install, it corrupts the whole windows installation. I'll wait for a new build. Oh well. That build was from December anyway, there should be a new one soon.
where do you get them?
endlesszeal
Senior Member
i think that build got pushed back into mar.
Citizen_Insane
Senior Member
I got mine from demonoid, or isohunt or somewhere. you can even install it from a partition and don't need to burn it to DVD. I burned it, I don't trust virtual drives enough to install OS's from them.
Sabz5150
FALCON PUNCH!!!
Not really.
All you need to do is find out which distro is for you. It all depends on your knowledge of computers and Linux in general. If you have no Linux experience, then Linspire is a good start. Very easy to install, very easy to use. As you learn, you can start looking at other, more advanced distros.
You don't *need* to recompile your kernel, the stock kernel is setup to run as-is. All modules are usually included for all supported hardware so it's plug and play. Once again, as you learn you will build your own kernels.
Throw in an extra drive and check out Linspire or Fedora.
Redhat maybe, but Fedora Core distros, compared to Windows are not simply install and go. You need to know some commands that will become simple over time, but there are many things you have to learn to get it to work right, setting up repositories, making sure dependencies are met, and there's no conflicts etc..and that's just to download MP3 support. I wiped my Linux drive upon return to the states, I just don't have time for it, and all politics aside Windows XP does what I, and the average user needs without any BS. Other than the eye candy, Vista seems pretty useless to the average user, and it's probably going to be a while before it is as usable as Xp.
i know E LOVES linspire, and i do too, but i gave it a thumbsdown.
upon initial install, it hung and rebooted my system several times. crashed alot. it didnt have support for my 2yr old CREATIVE LIVE! digital card. the NTFS support is buggy at best, and it is not recommended to transfer files between NTFS and linux partitions. that is really what swayed me from using linspire.
Sabz5150
FALCON PUNCH!!!
NTFS support is still lacking. No surprise Microsoft hasn't been the best in helping out.
I am however surprised that it didn't handle your soundcard.
i had a thread about it. we went back and forth trying to figure it out.
https://hondaswap.com/forums/index.php?...404&hl=linspire
https://hondaswap.com/forums/index.php?...404&hl=linspire
i cant believe some companies are still shipping computers loaded with winXP that have the fat32 filesystem.
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my laptop is fat32. i was shocked. im lazy and didin't runt he /convert command yet
if your HP is one of those which stores an "image" on a second partition, do not convert the second partition to ntfs.
Battle Pope
Well-Known Member
I thought fat32 was quicker to format though. That's why I assumed mass market manufacturers still did it.
i never bench marked it, but i don't think theres much difference
