[aclug-L] Re: July Meeting?

["Dale W Hodge" <dwh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ok, this discussion is all fine and dandy, but does anyone feel up to the task
of doing a presentation on it?  I have amost no experiance with any version of
Windows above Win98, so I haven't a clue as to what works or what doesn't work
with XP.  I run Windows on the desktop, and Linux on the servers. I have mission
critical software that will only run on Windows, so there's no choice for me to
migrate fully to Linux.

That said, the question again is whether anyone feels qualified enough to do a
presentation on this topic.  If not, then we are stuck with either an open forum
night or no meeting at all.

--Dale


> -----Original Message-----
> From: discussion-bounce@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:discussion-bounce@xxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Jonathan Hall
>
> I use many Free Software applications in Windows 2000 regularly.  Mozilla,
> OpenOffice, GAIM, GIMP, Xchat, and putty mostly.  I also have Cygwin
> installed, which comes with many CLI and X-based programs, as well as an X
> server that allows me to display applications running on a true Linux box
> elsewhere--useful if you have a Linux "server" but still require Windows for
> something (games?), and want to run Linux-based graphical programs, too.  In
> fact, that's why I installed the Cygwin X server... so I can run GNUcash on
> my P233 router/server and display it on my workstation without having to
> reboot into Linux every time I want to make a 30-second entry into my
> checkbook :)
>
> -- Jonathan
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kirk Lancaster" <lancaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> > On Friday 09 July 2004 03:48 pm, John Goerzen wrote:
> > > Or even to get some Free Software onto Windows machines (Mozilla,
> > > OpenOffice, etc.)
> >
> > This sounds like a good idea in general and the first step in a migration
> > path off Windows.
> >
> > I wonder if anyone knows which games service pack 2 will break?
> > Some info is here:
> >
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/security/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnwxp/ht
> ml/xpsp2web.asp
> > http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=22103525
> > If someone came to the meeting with illustrations of applications which
> will
> > no longer work under XP SP2, I would find this very interesting.
> >
> > At WSU, many students play computer games.  If SP2 is going to break
> > HALO or First Strike or NeverWinterNights or Doom3 (some game names
> > may be wrong), might we encourage them to look at and try Linux?
> > (The "cost of migration" cannot be an issue if MS breaks applications
> > they (students) like/use.)
> >
> > Kirk
>

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