[aclug-L] Re: July Meeting?

[ironrose <ironrose@xxxxxxx>]

Why not have a monitored round-table discussion?

I use open-source programs on my Win2k box, but I am not an expert of 
anything.  I do know more about windows than I do linux and I am still 
working on changing that.  Star Office 6 seems to run better on win2k 
than it does on linux.  SO6 won't run on the newer versions of suse and 
their suggestion was to upgrade to SO7, no further discussion from their 
FAQ's.  I had putty installed, but I think I messed up the 
configurations and couldn't get it to work.  I haven't tried Xchat, but 
Patrick and I used PSI a lot and it works great on win2k.  I would like 
to find out more about some options of open source software for windows.
~Anne

Dale W Hodge wrote:
> 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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