Witte wrote:
> Hi gang, With Fedora, Redhat, Ubuntu, Open Solaris, and the slew of other
> open source operating systems out there, I was wondering which one would be
> the most versatile and user friendly to use for a dual boot sys with XP Pro.
> To see more, go to:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_operating_systems
>
> My biggest problem has been using windows applications with these O.S.'s I
> understand virtualization software and emulators, but with all the different
> kinds out there, well, I guess you get my point. I like to edit photos and am
> a big PC gamer. I am learning Gimp, but like to use Adobe editors. I use open
> office but like Macromedia MX.

The performance of anything virtualized that uses graphics heavily will
suck mightily compared to code running on native drivers.  Given hw prices,
and the fact that apparently you don't mind paying $$$ for Windoze apps,
I am surprised you'd bother with all the effort required to slow things down
by virtualizing them.  Why not just run separate Windoze and Other systems?
Samba and a gbit net will allow you to share whatever you want just as easily
as a virtual instance sharing a linux disk.

I have 8 systems all running variants of debian/ubuntu, with a
couple of active instances of Win4lin hosting XP for occasional client
work, but if I had to spend any significant time at all on Windows,
I'd burn a box just for that.

All that said, win4lin on debian with the kqemu kernel module is rock
solid and amazingly fast.  I had fun watching the feynman lectures
over M$'s infernal silverlight stuff, full screen 1920x1200.  But do
make sure your cpu has modern virtualization support:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_virtualization

Not all do...

> I'm bug-eyed at all the googling I've done, yet it is a mountain of
> information to research. I am in fear at the idea of using the console
> because of my ignorance of the terminology.
>
> I'll be monitoring the post so, please input your ideas, pro and con, and,
> thanks so much for your time and support.
>
> Merry Christmas to all, and may you get what you need, not what you deserve.
>
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Hi gang,
         With Fedora, Redhat, Ubuntu, Open Solaris, and the slew of other open
source operating systems out there, I was wondering which one would be the most
versatile and user friendly to use for a dual boot sys with XP Pro. To see more,
go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_operating_systems

My biggest problem has been using windows applications with these O.S.'s
I understand virtualization software and emulators, but with all the different
kinds out there, well, I guess you get my point. I like to edit photos and am a
big PC gamer. I am learning Gimp, but like to use Adobe editors. I use open
office but like Macromedia MX.

I'm bug-eyed at all the googling I've done, yet it is a mountain
of information to research. I am in fear at the idea of using the console
because of my ignorance of the terminology.

I'll be monitoring the post so, please input your ideas, pro and con,
and, thanks so much for your time and support.

Merry Christmas to all, and may you get what you need, not what you deserve.

Members of LUGY,

Assuming you are able to dig yourself out of the snow today, this is a reminder that we will be meeting at the Palace tonight at 7:00 P.M. for the December 'social gig':

The Palace Restaurant and Saloon
120 S Montezuma St.
Prescott, AZ 86303
928-541-1996
Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 7:00 P.M.

Members of LUGY,

We are continuing to meet at different venues each month for the 'social' gathering of LUGY.  For the December gig, The first choice was Porky's BBQ, but they close at 7:00 P.M.  So, we are going with an alternate suggested, The Palace:

The Palace Restaurant and Saloon
120 S Montezuma St.
Prescott, AZ 86303
928-541-1996
Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 7:00 P.M.

alhawley85 wrote:

My version of Firefox is 3.5.2. It is running in Mepis 8.0, a Debian distro,
on an AMD64 dual processor machine. It refuses to display properly Facebook
pages. It also fails on some Amazon pages, and has recently begun failing on
U-Tube. Several LUGY members have reported "no such problems". A forum at the
Firefox web site contains many complaints of the same kind. Windows IE has no
problems, but I use Linux to AVOID Windows! I need help in getting Firefox to
work like others report. I need onsite troubleshooting and repairs that are
beyond my capabilities. Please respond via email (alhawley@...) if
you can help; I expect to pay normal consulting fees to anyone who can rescue
me from this situation. Al Hawley

You're sure it's not a flash plugin issue? I generally have had to go to
the adobe site and just download and stuff the plugin into the firefox
plugins dir:
/usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins/libflashplayer.so
That is, when I use whatever is the default flash player ISTR being in a
world of hurt similar to what you describe.
This is 64 bit of course.
But surely this came up in LUGY before. At any rate, the current
flash plugin that I'm using, for many days without a restart, without a crash
or even silent weirdness, is
libflashplayer-10.0.32.18.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
Russell

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On 11/15/2009 9:13 PM, G W wrote:
> Decided to build a similar system.  Is the utility to
> unlock the cpu the "AMD Overdrive" or is it some other
> software from Gigabyte?

CPUs are generally multiplier locked, the only way to change this, is to
physically bridge the pins in question.  AMD sells "Black" edition CPUs that
aren't multiplier locked.  Intel sells "Extreme Edition" CPUs that aren't
multiplier locked.

With a multiplier locked CPU, you can only raise the Front Side Bus (FSB)
speed, not a combination of multiplier and FSB.

AMD Overdrive is likely a utility that can be used (with windows) to
automagically overclock the CPU's FSB speed (usually needing other ratios
adjusted, as well as the CPU voltage increased slightly.

To be honest, pretty much any CPU you can buy today is a speed deamon that
likely doesn't need any overclocking, unless you REALLY want to, or do a
crap-load of video encoding.

--
Michael J. Ryan - http://tracker1.info/

... FRA #239: Never be afraid to mislabel a product.

Howdy Jim

Decided to build a similar system.  Is the utility to unlock the cpu the "AMD
Overdrive" or is it some other software from Gigabyte?

Thanks,
Gary

--- On Tue, 10/6/09, James C. Bevier <jbev@...> wrote:

From: James C. Bevier <jbev@...>
Subject: Re: [lugy] New Computer Recommendations
To: lugy@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, October 6, 2009, 7:12 PM












                   Gary,



Here is one I built for ~$400.  I has my own monitor and keyboard/mouse.

Here are some links:



N82E16819103680 CPU AMD|PH II X2 550 AM3 3.1G RT 1 102.99

       N82E16813128392 MB GIGABYTE | GA-MA770T-UD3P AMD770 1 79.99

       N82E16820134792 MEM 2Gx2|KST KVR1333D3K2/ 4GR R 1 64.99



Item Number: Item Description: Quantity: Price:

       N82E16814161262 VGA HIS H465FS512P HD4650 512M RTL 1 39.99

       N82E16817371004 PSU ANTEC|BP500U 500W RT 1 54.99

       Item Number: Item Description: Quantity: Price:

       N82E16811129042 CASE ANTEC|THREE HUNDRED BK RT 1 59.95



You should be able to add a 1 TB disk for $70.00 or so.  The motherboard

allows you to unlock the dual processor into a quad processor with a

firmware update.  Read the reviews Newegg reviews.  I changed the video card

later to an Nvidia one that would allow me to run Windows 2000.  It runs Win

XP up and most Linux systems.



Jim

alhawley85 wrote:
> My version of Firefox is 3.5.2. It is running in Mepis 8.0, a Debian distro,
> on an AMD64 dual processor machine. It refuses to display properly Facebook
> pages. It also fails on some Amazon pages, and has recently begun failing on
> U-Tube. Several LUGY members have reported "no such problems". A forum at the
> Firefox web site contains many complaints of the same kind. Windows IE has no
> problems, but I use Linux to AVOID Windows! I need help in getting Firefox to
> work like others report. I need onsite troubleshooting and repairs that are
> beyond my capabilities. Please respond via email (alhawley@...) if
> you can help; I expect to pay normal consulting fees to anyone who can rescue
> me from this situation. Al Hawley
>

You're sure it's not a flash plugin issue?  I generally have had to go to
the adobe site and just download and stuff the plugin into the firefox
plugins dir:

/usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins/libflashplayer.so

That is, when I use whatever is the default flash player ISTR being in a
world of hurt similar to what you describe.

This is 64 bit of course.

But surely this came up in LUGY before.  At any rate, the current
flash plugin that I'm using, for many days without a restart, without a crash
or even silent weirdness, is

libflashplayer-10.0.32.18.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz

Russell

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My version of Firefox is 3.5.2. It is running in Mepis 8.0, a Debian distro, on
an AMD64 dual processor machine. It refuses to display properly Facebook pages.
It also fails on some Amazon pages, and has recently begun failing on U-Tube.
Several LUGY members have reported "no such problems". A forum at the Firefox
web site contains many complaints of the same kind. Windows IE has no problems,
but I use Linux to AVOID Windows!
I need help in getting Firefox to work like others report. I need onsite
troubleshooting and repairs that are beyond my capabilities. Please respond via
email (alhawley@...) if you can help; I expect to pay normal
consulting fees to anyone who can rescue me from this situation.
Al Hawley