SUSE 11.1 Prompts Move From Windows
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SUSE 11.1 Prompts Move From Windows
13-06-2009 2:25 PM
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For day-to-day applications, I've switched to Open Office, and Thunderbird for email instead of the usual MS Office, and found them fine (and free!) too. I've been bowled over by the wealth of free Linux software, and the quality of it. Having tried Windows RC7, and finding it resource-greedy, and not to my taste, I've taken the decision to try to move to Linux and break with the costly Windows spiral.
For the one or two Windows items I can't yet find Linux alternatives for, I tried using Wine - which was OK'ish - but then tried an NT installation within a Sun VirtualBox running on SUSE, and that proved ideal.
At the moment I've still got Vista available via dual-boot, but I'm finding I rarely go back to it - except for Flight Simulator, and even that seems to run better on XP....maybe I'll just keep an XP boot option just for that.
SUSE 11.1 is well-worth a try-out.
Re: SUSE 11.1 Prompts Move From Windows
13-06-2009 8:47 PM
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13-06-2009 8:58 PM
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Re: SUSE 11.1 Prompts Move From Windows
14-06-2009 6:20 AM
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The 2 apps I'm using via an NT virtual machine - Routerstats Lite (which works via Wine, but after some time the window semi-minimises and becomes unusuable), and VBS so I can run a couple of scripts I wrote to analyse my router's bit loading data.
I'll take a look at the OpenSUSE forum today - thanks for the tip-off.
Jack
Re: SUSE 11.1 Prompts Move From Windows
16-06-2009 1:15 PM
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16-06-2009 4:39 PM
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Re: SUSE 11.1 Prompts Move From Windows
17-06-2009 7:04 AM
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So now no need at all for Windows
Re: SUSE 11.1 Prompts Move From Windows
17-06-2009 7:50 PM
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I've got a slow Windows laptop and DMT is all I use it for!
"In The Beginning Was The Word, And The Word Was Aardvark."
Re: SUSE 11.1 Prompts Move From Windows
18-06-2009 7:05 AM
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Tho I don't use DMT to alter the SNRM of my DG834G v4 (I use the DGTeam firmware instead), I do use it to get detailed stats/bitloading info, and its proved fine.
RouterStats-Lite using a similar approach (don't need the SU bit tho) is also OK.
Re: SUSE 11.1 Prompts Move From Windows
18-06-2009 11:43 AM
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Quote from: jack21 Re DMT: Yes. thats the one. I installed Wine via YAST, then downloaded and unzipped DMT v8 into /home/tools, then whilst logged in as ordinary user, from a terminal window, SU'd to root, then wine /home/tools/dmt.exe - works AOK.
Thanks, however I tried the equivalent in Ubuntu - but DMT crashes with windows type errors.
I wonder if it doesn't like my 32/64 bit OS?
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Re: SUSE 11.1 Prompts Move From Windows
19-06-2009 1:47 PM
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Mind you, if you wanted to, you could use Sun Virtual Box (its a brilliant Virtual Machine provider), and just have a virtual Windows host to provide the DMT.....thats what I did until I used the Wine method.
In the last couple of days, I've also worked out how to compile and run Visual Basic code on SUSE (by using Mono-Basic) and have converted my couple of bitloading analysis programs to work on SUSE (and learned a bit more during the process).....so its even better than before.
I'm not missing Windows a bit !!
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