OpenEuphoria

Re: Linux on a Wintel box

• Posted by The Johnson Family <thedjs at INAME.COM> Jan 30, 2000
• 580 views

There is a distribution available specifically for those who just want to
run linux for test purposes, or dont feel up to repartitioning their hard
drives:
    WinLinux, available at www.winlinux.net installs like an ordinary
windows
    application, and sets everything neccessary up itself.

Also, Caldera Openlinux (check www.caldera.com ), although it requires
repartitioning, has a completely graphical interface, and easy end user
instructions - anyone can install it (I'm not sure how the graphical
interface runs, it may start off in windows, or it may be as simple as
booting off the cd, either way, they provide full instructions). A number of
good introductory books are built around it, my personal reccommendation
would be "Sams Teach Yuorself Linux in 24 Hours (2nd Ed).

Nick

P.S. Although winlinux sounds easier, I would reccommend OpenLinux, it will
be stabler and faster, having its own file system.

----- Original Message -----
From: Jeff Zeitlin <jzeitlin at CYBURBAN.COM>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2000 8:47 AM
Subject: Linux on a Wintel box


> I may actually have gotten this info from someone here, but just
> in case...
>
> If you do your Euphoria development primarily in DOS, but without
> dipping into the OS-specific stuff, there's a reasonable way (if
> you have enough disk space) to run Linux, and therefore
> Euphoria/Linux, on your DOS/Win machine, so that you can test
> your code under Linux as well as DOS.
>
> DragonLinux is a Linux implementation that uses UMSDOS to sit 'on
> top of' your DOS/Windows file system - boot the DragonLinux
> kernal in DOS mode on your machine, and you're all set.
>
> DragonLinux (currently at v.0.8) can be obtained via the web at
> http://www.dragonlinux.nu - it's about 44MB to download, and
> installs to about 100MB - so you'll need about 250MB to play with
> on your system to get it up and running.
>
> Side note to Robert: Be is about to come out with a version of
> BeOS that will run as a 'virtual system' on a DOS/Win box; I
> don't recall how much disk space it will require.  Could a
> version of Euphoria be placed on the 'to do eventually' list?
> --
> Jeff Zeitlin
> jzeitlin at cyburban.com
>
>