OT: Windows is too expensive

parabolize · #1 March 9th, 2007, 10:27 PM

Open it again this time as super user:
Code:

sudo gedit /etc/modules

Add it at the bottom of the list and save like so:
Code:



# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.

#

# This file contains the names of kernel modules that should be loaded

# at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning with "#" are ignored.



lp

ndiswrapper

edit: Why o why has it taken to double spacing stuff inside code tags? It wasn't a few posts ago...

geoschmo · #2 March 9th, 2007, 10:36 PM

Para, I owe you a beer.

Wireless is workign great now. Thanks for all the help.

Geoschmo

parabolize · #3 March 9th, 2007, 10:37 PM

No problem.

TurinTurambar · #4 March 11th, 2007, 04:55 AM

Wish I'd opened this last week; I have a brand new OEM copy of XP:Pro, still in the cellophane wrapper.

Oops,
TT

Baron Munchausen · #5 March 11th, 2007, 02:34 PM

What? You could have used Linux instead? Or you would have bought a retail copy of XP at the higher price instead?

I'll take the XP package if you don't want to use it.

Windows still has its uses. For a while, anyway.

Arralen · #6 March 12th, 2007, 06:08 PM

Quote:

Baron Munchausen said:
Windows still has its uses. For a while, anyway.

Until April, 2014:
End of extended support for XP prof and home ... .

Lets hope Reactos and/or Linux are really usuable by then!

(and if anyone else has a wrapped version of XP prof lying around - I would be glad to help him getting rid of it ;-) )

AgentZero · #7 March 13th, 2007, 04:07 AM

Heh, by 2014 we'll have mobile phones that can run XP fer cryin out loud, and a Vista machine would cost less than a grand. Still, I'm all in favour of the user-friendly Linux idea. That'd be sweet.

parabolize · #8 March 14th, 2007, 07:34 AM

Quote:

Arralen said:
Lets hope Reactos and/or Linux are really usuable by then!

Thats a rather silly general statement isn't it? With all the computers between us (routers, modems, dns, shrapnel...) I'm guessing your computer is the only one running windows and at least one of them is running Linux.

I think what you're talking about is games. ReactOS, Wine and Cedega will always have trouble with newer Windows games. Not only is there a delay from waiting for the OS and game to be released before the work on compatibility can start but it takes longer to create that compatibility than the OS and game. A better solution is to make cross-platform software. Sadly cross-platform software is often avoided by developers because they see no immediate benefit because the small market. Users don't use alternative operating systems because their games won't run.

If the gaming communities only hope for another OS instead of contributing to one they will never have one.

Baron Munchausen · #9 March 19th, 2007, 05:34 PM

Quote:

geoschmo said:

Para, I owe you a beer.

Wireless is working great now. Thanks for all the help.

Geoschmo

OK, now that you've struggled through a Linux install maybe you can answer some questions. I am about to buy some new HDs and try to setup a dual boot system.

Does Linux still need a dedicated 'swap partition'? I'd like to know before I put the install disk in whether I should have reserved a few gigs for swap. And did you need to reconfigure and recompile the kernel to make it work or is this just an option? (How much of the stuff on the disk comes with source code? Basically everything? Or just the kernel and the little Gnu utilities?)

parabolize · #10 March 19th, 2007, 05:44 PM

Yes you want a swap partition. How large depends on how much ram you got and how much processing power. You usually want twice your ram.
You usually don't need to recompile the kernel though adding non-free graphics modules is pretty normal (aka nvidia driver).
Almost none of a debian (ubuntu) install is source though all the packages have source available in the repositories. Other distributions are called source based and install/compile everything from source like Gentoo.