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pmc:
Well this thread won't go away easy.  :)

Agree with Howard on why Linux and a cab doesn't make sense for most people. But the accolades for Puppy Linux here made we want to post and recommend my current favorite distro: PCLinuxOS.

Give it a whirl -- especially if you have no prior Linux experience and want to try Linux out. It boots from the CD and loads 100% into RAM. No need to install on your PC. It auto-configures all your hardware on the fly. It nailed my stuff -- printer, video card, sound, monitor, network adapter and settings -- EVERYTHING. Off and running with no effort. Most popular desktop applications are pre-installed (Bittorent, IM, Firefox, XMMS, Office, etc.). Save your config and files a USB flash (if you want) and simply reboot to your old Windoze world when you want.

Works really well for me. No more screwing around with LILO or Grub, hard drive partitions, and screwing up your Xwindows config and locking youself out until you can figure out how to fix it!.  ;)

It can be a little slow on accounta it's a full distro running in RAM. But given that it's a boot-from-CD kinda affair and costs you nothing in configuration or installation footprint, it's worth a look for sure.

If you like it, you can install onto your hard drive later. It'll likely replace my RedHat partition at some point.

Anyway, YMMV, but this is a really nice Linux distro if you just want a desktop OS and want to get up and running with no messing arond.

-pmc

spystyle:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on February 07, 2006, 07:49:55 am ---...If you are worried about performance and have an aging system then use dos.  It's faster, has a smaller footprint, zero bootup time, and since you were going to be using linux anyway, you'll hardly notice the ugly fe choices you are stuck with.
--- End quote ---

That's what I ended up doing! For me it was much easier than learning Linux because I used DOS back in 199X.

To do it I completely revamped "Fraggal's" boot CD:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=58809.0

Another good alternative to Linux, that is slim like DOS, is "TinyXP".

As for Linux - like JoyMonkey, out of all the "Live CDs" I tried, I liked Slax the best. Especially "Popcorn". So if you are wondering what all this Linux fuss is about and want to take a look, that's a good place to start:

http://www.slax.org/download.php

Another Linux "Live CD" that I got a kick out of was "GeexBox". It turns a computer into a media player, for Divx and such:

http://geexbox.org/en/index.html

Cheers,
Craig

wIrEs:
i think running linux in shell mode (no GUI like KDE etc..) is by far more flexible than a DOS.

spystyle:
The DOS boot CDs don't require any knowledge, they are automated, like a LiveCD.

wIrEs:
don't be afraid of linux  :cheers:

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