Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 13:30:58 02/14/03
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On February 13, 2003 at 10:14:01, Daniel Clausen wrote:
>On February 12, 2003 at 12:55:55, Russell Reagan wrote:
>
>>On February 12, 2003 at 11:37:31, Matthew Hull wrote:
>>
>>>The down side is that a lot of popular pay-for software runs only on the
>>>borg-ware OS. If you want to break this cycle of dependence, you should be
>>>lobbying your favorite software vendors to migrate to Linux, not to the XP
>>>police-ware.
>>
>>You hit the head on the nail with everything you said. I'd just like to add that
>>MOST of the things that people use in Windows and pay hundreds of dollars for
>>(or more) are available for Linux/BSD/Unix, and most of them for free.
>
>So why am the only one in this board who reminds people like Christophe to port
>their stuff to Linux then? You should help me! I can't read CCC all day long and
>catch every single post by them! ;)
>
>Sargon (waiting to throw money at people who port their commercial engines to
>Linux :)
It will come.
For me, one major step towards independancy has been the discover of the
fabulous Win4lin.
Win4lin allows to install and let a Win95/98/98SE/ME session run on the Linux
desktop, with almost no speed loss!
Incredible software!
The result is that now I can use Linux almost 100% of the time. I use the
desktop Linux and applications whenever possible, and for those Windows program
that still do not have an equivalent (for example CodeWarrior for PalmOS), I
just have to start a Windows session on top of my Linux Desktop.
So I do not have to give up the last Windows applications that do not have a
Linux equivalent, and I do not have to reboot into Windows anymore.
Chess Tiger 15 (PC version) runs fine inside Win4lin. At almost the same speed
than under a "normal" Windows.
The only drawback is that Win4lin is still expensive ($80). But I can live with
it I think. There are too many advantages.
Christophe
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