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Re: Bye Microsoft! [Re: supra]
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true, there are though petty tough requirement the thumb drive has to meet. Any extra speed is better than non to me.

WB


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Re: Bye Microsoft! [Re: Ythan]
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http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/79728/index.html
read that

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Re: Bye Microsoft! [Re: systemshock]
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I did some research on the XP key thing, it's not true. There is however a piece in the EULA which describes something that's been in it since windows 95/98 which is often misinterpreted.

If you upgrade XP to Vista, you'll use the Vista key not XP. Basically is what it actually means.

You can install that XP key/copy on another machine afterwards.

Edited by threeam (02/03/07 01:36 AM)

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Re: Bye Microsoft! [Re: Ythan]
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Ythan said:
Windows 3.1, Windows for Workgroups, Windows 95, Windows NT 4, Windows 2000, Windows XP... I've never missed an upgrade, I even pay for them. Now with Vista you need a copy of the previous OS installed before you can upgrade, and it also invalidates your old serial. Once they stop updating XP I'm going straight to Linux and never looking back. I'm still on the fence about whether it's 100% ready for desktop use, but it's sure looking better than any of the alternatives. Who's with me? We should start a converter's club.


I've been using linux exclusively for about a year. As soon as I got counter-strike working under wine I stopped missing windows. I use ubuntu with beryl on both my laptop and desktop. My laptop uptime is somewhere over 6 months. I don't miss windows at all.


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"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." - Thomas Jefferson

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Re: Bye Microsoft! [Re: z@z.com]
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I was with win98 until like...a year ago or a little bit over that.Fuck vista...I'm going to be with Xp for a damn long time or even perhaps go to another OS.


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Re: Bye Microsoft! [Re: Liquid_Dimension]
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I've been straight BSD since 2000 or so when the 2.2 kernel just come out.

I replaced windows with linux for the first time in forever a couple days ago, and wow. I am pretty impressed, althought running as an integrated desktop system, with all the same whistles and bells you get from windows...it isnt nearly as fast as one would hope.

That is right out of the box though, theres definately some fat to be trimmed.

I am impressed though, I dont think ill be changing os anytime soon.


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Re: Bye Microsoft! [Re: tak]
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Quote:
I've been straight BSD since 2000 or so when the 2.2 kernel just come out.

I replaced windows with linux for the first time in forever a couple days ago

I dont think ill be changing os anytime soon.



So...you were running BSD since 2000, then replaced Windows with Linux a couple of days ago, and now won't be changing the OS anytime soon?

What are you running now?


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Re: Bye Microsoft! [Re: Anno]
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I'm happy...I got Ubuntu running now with my ATI drivers working perfectly. Now all I need is a DVD authoring program that works well...and I'm done with windows..

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Re: Bye Microsoft! [Re: Ythan]
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I use gentoo as a desktop, and I will never look back.

OpenBSD as a server OS :grin:

Its brilliant, all I need is a connection to a decent back bone then I will neve need another shitty ISP.

All this from my extroadinarily geeky bedroom :grin:


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Re: Bye Microsoft! [Re: Cepheus]
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i would love to use strictly linux, but all the dvd ripping/burning software ive tried I cant get to work. Ive tried k9copy, wine with dvd shrink/dvd decrypeter(which is what i use on windows), and another popular one i cant remember...i can do everything else i need to in linux though..

peace

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Re: Bye Microsoft! [Re: Boom]
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in terms of dvd authoring, there are a lot of command-line utilities to convert whatever kind of video files you have into a ready-to-burn dvd structure. check this wiki stub for a lot of links to various tools. or, as you said you're running ubuntu, this wiki page should get you all the info you need.

supra - in terms of dvd ripping, i've had nothing but success with DVD::Rip (ubuntu's wiki page). and this howto claims it is more than possible to get dvdshrink working through wine, so i'm not sure what the troubles you had were related to :ohwell: check out DVD::Rip, though, it's pretty straightforward and simple


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Re: Bye Microsoft! [Re: Anno]
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I am running gentoo at the moment.

My previous post I meant to say that I stopped using linux right after the 2.2 kernel came out...and switched to FreeBSD.

I hadn't really looked back since then, running a fbsd computer, along side a windows machine.

I always laughed at people who got viruses, "stop downloading junk" I said. But these days, adware and spyware is more of a problem then I want to deal with, along with the lack of creative control.

I installed openSuSE the other day, and was very impressed with the out of the box support it had for even my obscure, and new hardware.

I decided then that I was going to drop windows for a while, repartitioned all my space, and installed gentoo.


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Re: Bye Microsoft! [Re: tak]
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I have had great success with openSUSE 10.2. I have installed on an Acer Aspire 5050. My wireless card works, my graphics card works, I have the software I need installed, and I have XGL and Compiz running a 3D desktop. I only use Windows on my gaming PC, and definitely recommend openSUSE. There is no need for Windows (aside from gaming for now).


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Re: Bye Microsoft! [Re: Ythan]
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I converted.


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Re: Bye Microsoft! [Re: Krishna]
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Krishna said:
in terms of dvd authoring, there are a lot of command-line utilities to convert whatever kind of video files you have into a ready-to-burn dvd structure. check this wiki stub for a lot of links to various tools. or, as you said you're running ubuntu, this wiki page should get you all the info you need.

supra - in terms of dvd ripping, i've had nothing but success with DVD::Rip (ubuntu's wiki page). and this howto claims it is more than possible to get dvdshrink working through wine, so i'm not sure what the troubles you had were related to :ohwell: check out DVD::Rip, though, it's pretty straightforward and simple


DVD Shrink in wine was crashing every time I tried to change a setting. I also tried DVD Shrink for Linux. The thing that bugged me the most about it was you can only rip one audio channel.


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Re: Bye Microsoft! [Re: Ythan]
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Ythan said:
Windows 3.1, Windows for Workgroups, Windows 95, Windows NT 4, Windows 2000, Windows XP... I've never missed an upgrade, I even pay for them. Now with Vista you need a copy of the previous OS installed before you can upgrade, and it also invalidates your old serial. Once they stop updating XP I'm going straight to Linux and never looking back. I'm still on the fence about whether it's 100% ready for desktop use, but it's sure looking better than any of the alternatives. Who's with me? We should start a converter's club.


I can now say that I'm more than happily posting from my laptop running Xandros and it's running smoothly :thumbup:
I have everything I need and then some, except for a few minor details like shared folders on msn's messenger.

Fortunately the installation was even easier than installing winXP, and even tho I needed to config some of the hardware/software to get full functionality I can say it took a short time considering I'm a linux noob.

I'm still keeping a few winXP partitions among my computers for my music-recording and games needs, but for everyday work linux is more than enough. It sure has come a long way in the last years :thumbup:


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Re: Bye Microsoft! [Re: Colonel Kurtz Ph.D]
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Linux does everything you need or want except games...

I only keep windows around for the occasional online FPS games...


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Re: Bye Microsoft! [Re: SymmetryGroup8]
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Welcome everybody. Live in the light!!!

I can't really join the converters club, since I've been running Linux since Red Hat 5.2 came out which was late 1998 (I still have the original install CDs) I've been running Ubuntu for the last three years and only occasionally boot into WinXP for the odd program that doesn't run under wine.


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Re: Bye Microsoft! [Re: koppie]
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Got a quick question. I've got a second hard drive on this laptop that I do not use at all. Would there be any way to install linux on it just to play around with? If so, after installation, how would I get my computer to give me the option to boot either Windows or Linux each time I turned it on? Is this possible?? Any help is much appreciated. Also what distro of *nix would you recommend to a complete noob? (needs to be something configurable with a wireless router)


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Re: Bye Microsoft! [Re: THE KRAT BARON]
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Just install the distro of your choice. For me, openSUSE is great. You can select the drive to install it to, and partition it accordingly. If it is a completely separate drive you are installing it to, you would just have to set in your bios to boot from that drive, if it is simply a partition, then the Linux distro will usually give you a boot menu.

I installed linux on a partition and when I start up my computer I get to a menu screen that asks me to select an OS: windows xp or openSUSE. It is fairly simple, and there is usually a good forum for each distro that will most likely be able to help you out along the way.

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