Re: OT: WinLinux
| Bud Rogers wrote:
|
| This is totally OT for the list, but bear with me.
|
| My wife runs W98 on her PC. I've been trying to get her interested in Linux
| for a couple of years now. As Linux in general and KDE in particular have
| gotten more and more user friendly, she has gradually moved from polite
| indifference to mild interest.
Check out cygwin and XFree86 and KDE -- it is all available (in binary
form) for windows. I've been using it at work and like it (well, KDE
is better than twm but it isn't GNOME). The only problem is sometimes
windows locks hard when switching back to the X window (which is just
a windows window where X clients are painted). I have been running X
in fullscreen mode.
www.cygwin.com
www.cygwin.com/xfree
kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net
Glib and GTK+ (1.2.10) build with no trouble with this setup and gvim
works really well too.
| A couple of days ago she found the WinLinux website and emailed me the link.
| She found it interesting and wondered if it was worth messing with. Now I'm
| quite happy with my Debian and my KDE, thank you very much, but if she's
| interested in WinLinux I'm more than happy to feed her interest.
|
| Has anyone on the list had any experience good or bad with WinLinux? Could
| it be a way to give a Windows user a relatively stress free transition to
| Linux?
A friend of mine used to run it, I think. He had linux that sat on
his windows partition and was started from windows. I don't think
there were any major problems, but it might be a little weird when it
comes to devices and such.
-D
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