[cad-linux] Re: binary of lx viewer

Hello Andy,

Just do what I am doing.
Buy and install another HDD, install the distro of your choice, and then 
spend as much time moving everything over as you need. I still have X.P., but 
it's no more than an expensive set of drivers for a couple of up-market 
peripherals that I haven't been able to get Linux drivers for yet. Once I get 
those I'll be hacking it down to a level where it operates as a functional 
distro. I'll be doing that shortly to 98 S.E., down to a 50 MB footprint, no 
more.
If you need any assistance with anything like that, just contact me with a 
short note through the newsletter, and we'll organize something by way of 
email.

Regards,

David.


On Fri, 10 May 2002 09:25, you wrote:
> Keith and David,
>
> I hope Keith is right in stating that MS will just turn people off by this
> strategy, but I am not so sure.  I got stuck with XP when my family's W98
> machine bit the dust 36 months and 2 weeks after I bought it with a 36
> month warranty.  I needed a box (quickly) which meant retail, and you
> cannot buy a machine retail without XP already loaded - I tried and no
> dice.  Kind of annoying because I now have a valid W98 license and no
> machine to run it on. I paid $399 for a one point something or other
> gigahertz celron box and I figure 25% of the price was for the operating
> system which I did not want. It is just like throwing money down the drain,
> but you know what, once you are forced to spend the money you then don't
> pull the operating system off to load another one.
>
> David also has a point in that it seems like XP is designed mainly to run
> MS applications.  I have not had the experience of unloading previously
> installed drivers, but the two primary non-MS applications in this machine
> cough a whole lot more that the native MS applications do.  I also agree
> that you can't (don't) want to mess with any settings.  I might fiddle with
> the registry in W98, but I would not touch it on this computer.
>
> I know, I could stop being so cheap and get an Internet connection that is
> not AOL and then connect using my LINUX box, but computers are supposed to
> make your life easier, not cost you more money because the dominant company
> decides not to interface with anyone else.
>
> This topic was actually started by accident.  I thought I was responding to
> an off-list E-mail from Keith,  I guess I need to read the headers more
> carefully.  I believe this discussion is not as off topic as it might seem.
> If the MS marketing succeeds, and since you pretty much have to buy a
> computer with XP installed how can it fail, the inability of XP to
> communicate with other OS's is not good news for LINUX.
>
> Andy

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