New releases and other ramblings

[jack@jacku.com]

This comes from the "because its there" department.

I picked up a copy of SuSE 7.0 Professional this week. Partly because I wanted to play around with some of the extras that come on the 6 CD-ROMs. One of those is VMWare. I finally have enough guts in a machine to try it out. (Its border line. 96Mb of RAM and a 300MHz K6-2). After some trials and tribulations I have Windows 95 up and running. This message is proof of that. Currently I am forced (okay not really forced) to use one of the Free ISP services (I choose FreeInet) to get online. (MediaOne^H^H^H make that AT&T Broadband promises that Plymouth will have cable modem service RSN. That's why I'm still using FreeI). Anyway I have successfully loaded Win95, IE 5, and the FreeI client and gotten the VM to see my modem. I nearly smoked my dual boot version of Windows in the process but that's life. I figure I'll poke and prod this for the 30-day trial and then decide if its worth the purchase. 

On another note. I also picked up the almost free ($19.99 with a $20 rebate) Caldera LTP and loaded it on a partition on my laptop. (P166MMX 40Mb RAM) Its not bad. Everything seems to run but KDE2 barfs on exit from the config screens. In another lets see just how wacky things can be I tried loading an old copy of "Lemmings" under dosemu (with the DR-DOS kernel that Caldera supplies) just for the heck of it. (Its also the only DOS specific program I had handy.) It ran, not well, but it ran. Even had mouse support. 

End result: We can definately create "transitional housing" for people who want to come to Linux but need some Windows apps. Once I get the cable modem I'll try Win4Lin to see how it compares.

Rambling on...

Jack Ungerleider - The Ungerleider Group
Creative Solutions for Cooperative Computing
jack@jacku.com
www.jacku.com