<OT> Re: can't load windoze
Leon Goldstein
metapsych
Wed Mar 14 10:40:46 PDT 2007
Net Llama! wrote:
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>>>Because its windows and it sucks? Tony, can you take this sillyness to
>>>general where it belongs? If i wanted to read about lame windoze bugs,
>>>I'd read my email at work.
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>>Installing Win 98 on a multi-boot Linux system is sillyness? I guess
>>I'm silly too.
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>If the shoe fits. Problems installing win98 have absolutely nothing to do
>with this list.
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>>I need Win 98 to run my income tax program and OCR, a proprietary pet
>>microchip management app, to be able to download and flash firmware
>>upgrades from time to time, and unfortunately will have to until
>>CrossOver achieves full Win compatibility.
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>So? That's still irrelevant to this list.
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Silly me! I was obviously under the delusion that a purpose of the SxS
list was promoting and facilitating the Linux desktop.
In my case and, I may be so bold as to suggest, in many other users'
cases, functionality still requires some Win apps, whether run in a
virtual machine, under emulation, or in a separate Win partition.
--
Leon A. Goldstein
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