OpenEuphoria

Re: OT: CoLinux revisited (was Re: Idea List: #0002)

• Posted by Al Getz <Xaxo at aol.com> Feb 04, 2006
• 438 views

ags wrote:
> 
> Jason Gade wrote:
> > 
> > Al Getz wrote:
> > > 
> > > don cole wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > How about a wrapper converting Win32lib and winClass programs to
> > > > wxWindows
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> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > He He...
> > > > 
> > > > Don Cole
> > > 
> > > Hi there Don,
> > > 
> > > Interesting idea, although at the moment i have no real need for
> > > a cross platform lib because i only use Windows.  I meant to get
> > > around to installing a Linux distro but never seemed to get to
> > > it for some reason.  I tried a 'live' Linux and it was pretty cool,
> > > but got tired of having to set everything up all over again when i
> > > would boot up.
> > > 
> > > Perhaps i should try again with a full Lin version and try to make
> > > at least the WinClass Lib cross platform.  I wonder what it would
> > > take to make a lib that depends on the usual Windows dll's work
> > > on Linux too...
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Al
> > > 
> > > 
> > > My bumper sticker: "I brake for LED's"
> > 
> > I haven't done it myself, but some live distros such as Knoppix allow you to
> > save settings to your HD or to a thumb drive.
> 
> I feel compelled again to mention CoLinux, the "Cooperative Linux" which runs
> under Windows (2000/XP only).  I have CoLinux on this machine acting as my
> firewall
> (slightly dubious, but effective enough :) and at work our two main servers
> (samba and exim4) run on the same machine under Win2k pro (you need Speed for
> this, ours is 3.4GHz HT P4e) and have worked flawlessly for almost 8 months
> now, backup is a breeze--shutdown the servers, copy the root fs images,
> restart
> the servers.
> 
> The only caveat I have is if you use the cofs driver (for local filesystem
> access) back up your root filesystem image _regularly_.  The cofs driver
> has a nasty habit of occasionally totally scrambling the root image 
> 
> Before this happened to me, sans backup :) I had a good Gnome desktop
> environment
> setup which I could VNC into, thus develop Euphoria apps.
> 
> www.colinux.org  relatively easy to install, but big download for the 
> Debian fs image.  5/5 nifty stars :)  Excellent Wiki too.
> 
> Gary

Hi Gary,

I hate to say this but, 
"The cofs driver has a nasty habit of occasionally
 totally scrambling the root image"
doesnt sound like a very good argument for using 'CoLin'  

I could see the sales writeup now...
"We have the perfect system that does everything you've ever
 wanted an op system to do...  Just make sure you back up your
 root drive in case it gets scrambled and you have to refresh it
 from backups!!"

Currently my root drive is around 20 gigs, and i wouldnt want to
have to refresh it from CD's if something screwed up with the driver.
It would take more than 30 CD's to back that thing up for one, and
imagine how long it would take to refresh?
I could use my personal virus program, but currently that takes
some two hours to reinstall stuff.  I wouldnt want to have to do
that either.

Maybe the people who make that software could fix that problem?


Take care,
Al

And, good luck with your Euphoria programming!

My bumper sticker: "I brake for LED's"