[TriLUG] OT: legacy 16bit DOS programs on Win2k

[Michael Thompson]

On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 14:59, Jim Ray wrote:
> now, i gotta make the switch.  i'm tired of being stupid, boring and ugly.  i wanna be a linux user and become smart, interesting and good-looking.
>  
> i dunno if it will happen on the desktop side since intuit quickbooks prolly won't port to linux on my account.

I now have Linux as the main OS on all of my home machines, for those
Windows apps that I have to use and can't/won't find suitable
alternatives Win4Lin is GREAT!  I use Quickbooks and I use PhotoShop and
the Macromedia MX Studio for web design.  Its fast and reliable,
considering it *is* Windows.  I can run my Windows session in a full
screen and toggle back and forth (using Ctrl-Alt-F7/F8 etc..) or run
Windows in a window if its more convenient.  It does not support Direct
X so many games will not work (or most?  I don't know, don't usually
play games anyway).  It also uses the Linux file system, instead of a
single file with all of your Windows partitions in it.  My ~/mydata
directory, for instance is the D: drive in Win4Lin, so its easy to cp
files etc...

Netraverse also gives a discount for TriLUG members, IIRC it was 20%.

--mwt


> server side is different.  then, i may actually be able to get rid of that winmail.dat thingie that creates panties in a wad.  leave it up to exchange web access to blow my cover.
> 
> 	-----Original Message----- 
> 	From: Jon Carnes [mailto:jonc at nc.rr.com] 
> 	Sent: Thu 5/1/2003 2:47 PM 
> 	To: trilug at trilug.org 
> 	Cc: 
> 	Subject: Re: [TriLUG] OT: legacy 16bit DOS programs on Win2k
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> 	> It may not be on-topic, but as a Linux user you may want the opinion 
> 	> of other Linux users on this or a variety of other topics, because 
> 	> we all know Linux users are smart and interesting, not to mention 
> 	> good-looking.  ;) 
> 
> 	<shhhhhhhh!  We don't want all those beautiful women to find out our 
> 	secret or they will try to lure us away from our geekly activities>