Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 23:09:14 06/16/03
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On June 17, 2003 at 00:57:51, Russell Reagan wrote: >On June 16, 2003 at 19:18:18, Christophe Theron wrote: > >>The first version will have the Tiger TUI (text user interface). The TUI does >>not provide any help for standard interfacing with anything but PGN. > >I wonder how hard it would be to make a "TUI to XBoard" adapter. Probably could >do it in a shell script without too much trouble. I don't know exactly. But it's not really a priority for me. >>Multiboot is very easy and for example on my Toshiba laptop I have WinXP, WinME >>and two versions of Linux installed and all are working fine (not even counting >>W98 installed inside of Linux and running in parallel with Linux). > >Interesting. How do you have Win98 running simultaneously, inside linux? I'm using a terrific product called Win4Lin. I have described this stuff in a previous message, so you should do a search in the CCC archives if you are interested. Basically you install a Windows CD (95, 98, 98SE or Millennium) inside Linux. Windows can run on the Linux desktop in a windows, or in full screen. Linux and Windows are running at the same time and you can switch from one to the other as if they were just applications. Copy/paste between Windows and Linux works. The network and Internet connections are shared (connect on the Linux side and the Windows side instantly can use that connection). Applications run at the native Windows speed or almost (maybe 2-4% slowdown, it's hard to measure). 99% of the Windows applications work without any problem. Virtually anything works. The only exceptions are applications that access some specific hardware and DOS applications trying to access to the VGA mode (so Rebel does not work). This product allows somebody to switch painlessly to Linux: you continue to use your Windows apps (Office, IE, Outlook) while you learn Linux and look for Linux apps to replace your Windows ones. This solution is VASTLY superior to dual-booting or an emulator like Wine. The only problem is that it costs $80. But it's worth it. For more info have a look at https://www.netraverse.com/ >>All of this (repartitionning and multiboot) can be achieved by using a 64Kb >>shareware DOS utility called "Ranish Partition Manager". > >Does this allow you to resize existing partitions without losing the data that >was stored on them (similar to Partition Magic)?
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