OpenEuphoria

Re: [OT]WINXP WORTH THE MONEY

• Posted by David Cuny <dcuny at LANSET.COM> Jun 01, 2003
• 429 views

A couple of points:

- WinXP is based on NT as its core, so it's more stable than Win98 and its 
predecessors. Unlike Win98 and prior releases, it doesn't have DOS at it's 
core. This can be good or bad, depending if you play a lot of games.

- Wine will run a lot of software, but not everything, and often needs a lot 
of fiddling. Euphoria runs under Wine - even Win32Lib programs.

- CodeWeavers offers a commercial product based on Wine called CrossOver 
Office. For $55, you can run a lot of commercial XP software. Not everything, 
of course.

- If you want to play with Linux, the easiest thing to do is get a Knoppix CD. 
It's a "live" Linux CD, which means that you can boot and run a complete 
Linux distribution from CD, without having to install anything on your hard 
drive.

-- David Cuny