"Stuart Miller" <stuart_miller@shaw.ca> skrev i meddelandet
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> This post is getting to be rather large so i will trim it
>
>
> >> >
> >> > I gave up on then a few years ago
> >>
> >> Which one? Symantec or Windows 98?
>
> I gave up on Symantec, I still run win98 on 4 machines here
>
> >> For example, are there text editors?
>
> Several built in, OpenOffice will do pretty much everything you can do
with
> MS Office, also free
What about customers who would need a translation and send
a text in a Word document?
Well, an option might be to have a PC with Linux and another with
Windows XP for example.
But what if you get a text which is in Word 97, for example?
Could you open it by using OpenOffice?
What if your customer does not use Linux?
> >> What can you use to resize photos and the like if you work on a Linux
> >> platform?
>
> The Gimp (also free) is excellent
>
> >> Is Linux only for private users or even for commercial use?
>
> I use it as a workstation, file & print server, and as a web server - 3
> different machines.
>
> >> I have myself a one-man business
>
> would be well suited to that
>
> >>
> >> I think that it probably took some months to learn the basical things
but
> >> how long it could take to learn and use Linux depends much on how
> > different
> >> it is compared with Windows
> >>
>
> From a graphical point of view, I would describe it as 'much like windows'
> in that you can navigate, drag & drop, and open files with their related
> application in a very similar manner
>
> What is different is
> - the concept of separate user accounts & separate spaces, properly
> implemented and secure
> - the need to use the admin account to install programs, and the need to
> never use the admin account to do any application type work or play games
>
> >>
> >> I share your opinion. I have learnt a little bit about MS DOS but not
> >> that
> >> much, so it would probably take longer for me.
>
> command documentation is excellent, should be fairly easy
>
> >>
>
> >> >
> >> > One consideration for an easy transition is to get a second hard
drive,
> >> > about 8 gigs is enough, put it in your system as slave, and use the
> > linux
> >> > dual boot option. You can learn linux but still have your win98
system
> >> > available.
> >>
> >>
> >> Do you mean an extra external hard drive?
>
> That is one possibility, but some computers will not boot from a usb
device,
> so I do not recommend that.
If I needed to buy another PC to use Linux, this change would be much more
expensive...
At present I use 2 computers. I could switch from Windows 98 into Linux at
one and leave
Windows XP in the other. I already have an external hard drive.
If I needed buy another PC to run Linux, it would probably not be worth.
I am basically looking for a solution to use the resources which are already
available to me in the best and least expensive way.
And, by the way does this solution suits to transfer files to and from the
server if the website is sent over https?
> Every pc these days allows 4 ide devices. My system has
>
> Primary ide
> - master drive - 250 gig maxtor with linux, multi boot loader, then win 98
> and my xp experimental install. For both of these I can test things then
> reformat & reinstall if I screw things up
> - slave drive - 160 gig WD with my 'functional' install of xp, I am typing
> on right now
> This is for the xp things I have no choice about (yet) which I can not
> run in win98
> Secondary ide
> - dvd reader
> - dvd burner
>
> Stuart
What do you mean by "ide"?
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