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Old 2001-02-14, 21:45
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A little question about Linux: Is it posseble to run all the windows like programms or do you need a emulator or a patch or something for it?
You see, my mother told me that at the office of a friend of her they can run Word on Linux...

Cause I'm planing to put Linux on my mothers old pc (pentium 200 with 40 mb RAM) which is used as the internet computer. I thought about putting Linux on the D drive (6 GB) because Windows is already on the C drive (3 mb) because I know you can(at least at mine) choose at startup which OS you want to use.
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Old 2001-02-14, 22:22
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Nope, normally Linux is imcompatible with Windows programs. But of course there are emulators, and also special versions of software for Linux. But Word...? Don't think so. Either an emulator or a program that looks a lot like Word.

But who am I to tell you this, I don't even know anything about Linux
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Old 2001-02-14, 22:25
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It is possible to run windows under linux, and from windows open win type exes.
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Old 2001-02-15, 02:24
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To run windows programs in linux you can use VMWare to boot windows from withing linux or Wine to start windows program. For a office I recommend to use StarOffice, it's better then MS Office and it's free to download from http://www.sun.com.
Star office has a windows version and a unix version.
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Old 2001-02-15, 09:46
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Okay, so you can run Windows programs by running a Windows emulator... but are they the same speed as normal or slowed down because it's already in a Linux shell?
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Old 2001-02-15, 11:18
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They run as fast and stable as they run in windows.
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Old 2001-02-15, 15:32
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But you do need a fast (450Mhz+) cpu and at least 64MB ram to run VMWare normally..
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Old 2001-02-15, 16:11
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Hey!, those are exactly my specs! :P
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Old 2001-02-15, 16:47
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VMWare... is that included at linux or do you haveto download it somewhere?
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Old 2001-02-15, 21:30
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I thought you had to download it, but maybe they changed that.

By the way are you running Windows on a 3 Mb Harddrive.
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Old 2001-02-15, 22:34
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Sorry El Muerte, I just can't agree with you about StarOffice - it's very limited when compared to MSOffice, it's hard for even the most die-hard Linux zealot to deny that
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Quote:
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I thought you had to download it, but maybe they changed that.

By the way are you running Windows on a 3 Mb Harddrive.
you mean "By the way, are you running Windows on a 3 Mb Harddrive?"
I'm sorry... but it really annoyed me...

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Old 2001-02-15, 22:45
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I've got VMware now, so maybe I try Linux to.
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Old 2001-02-16, 00:20
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Sorry El Muerte, I just can't agree with you about StarOffice - it's very limited when compared to MSOffice, it's hard for even the most die-hard Linux zealot to deny that
It's not only my opinion, a quality German and Dutch PC magazine did a test woth diffirent Office packets.. Sun's StarOffice came out best. StarOffice is not limited, it has all the features MSOffice has to and most of the time worked out better. And die hard unix users use latex.
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Old 2001-02-16, 15:40
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Yes smazy, I'm running Windows on a 3 mb harddrive!

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Old 2001-02-16, 18:10
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which windows?
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Old 2001-02-17, 18:51
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You're bad in detecting sarcasm, aren't you?
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Old 2001-02-19, 17:18
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I already detected it, but I thought maybe se know one, because I've got an old notebook with not much diskspace and thought maybe that would fit.
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Old 2001-02-19, 18:07
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I'm confused... are you trying run Windows on 3 MB hard drive?!
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3 mb harddrive???? What version is that then? 3.11?? I think that win 95 takes about 100 megabites...

Didn't you mean Gigabite??
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There aren't any HD's availeble with only 3 megs. If you have low space than I would take W 95
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Old 2001-02-20, 02:23
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win 3.11 needs 24mb hd space
win 2.x needs +-15mb hd space
win 1.x needs +-3mb hd space

those are all minimal installs...
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Old 2001-02-20, 19:19
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Hehehe, funny...when you're reletively new in the computer buisness you don't really realise there was also an Windows 1.x and 2.x....
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Old 2001-02-20, 20:17
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Yeah... I was from the DOS 6.0 / Windows 3.11 (and Norton Commander!!) time, my first computer was a 486 with 66 mhz and 4 MB ram and a 400 MB hd


btw, the smallest HD I ever had was a 20 MB hd from a 286 with green/black monitor
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