I did the dual/quad, etc. booting for some time and I finally got sick of waiting for reboots. If you're using Windows apps for school and you have a decent system, I urge you to consider virtualization. Each virtual disk and machine is just a file that resides on your normal filesystem. You can then install any number of operating systems and run them on Linux. You can even save their states so you don't have to shutdown/reboot these virtual machines when you close them. I use qemu to create the virtual disks, and vmware-player to run the virtual machines. I especially find it handy when I vpn to work since the vpn software is Windows only. Just a note: Wine has been around a lot longer than WoW and is great for some apps (e.g. that don't require virtual drivers) but when it comes to games, I've never had it work right. ----- Original message ----- From: "Dave Alanis" <SDALAN04 at smumn.edu> To: "Matt Waters" <wate0155 at metnet.edu>, tclug-list at mn-linux.org Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 20:27:35 -0500 Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Considering dumping windows Hello Matt: I have also gone through the stage of wanting to diminish Windows from daily use. However, some Windows applications make school alot easier. As an Ipod owner, I have not had alot of time looking for ways to support it through Linux. When I did look for alternatives there were non at the time. If you dont want to loose what you have on there now, you might want to consider a dual booting with Windows. There have been times that I totally blow Windows and just run off an ld Gentoo installation on my laptop. When they were times I needed to run *programs* I emerged Wine and was able to continue using them with no problem. Correct me if I am wrong, I thought that wine was made specifically for users who wanted to run World of Warcraft under Linux. Af far as tranfering all your files from your Ipod you should have no problem (as long as you can boot from USB) I have used my Ipod to install Mac OS X on my HP but yes you can access it under Linux as well. Dave On Tuesday, May 02, 2006 7:48 PM, Matt Waters wrote: > >Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 19:48:04 -0500 >From: Matt Waters >To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org >Subject: [tclug-list] Considering dumping windows > >Hello, everyone. I'm rather new to this list and don't have a lot of >recent experience with Linux, so please forgive me if I sound dense. > >Anyway, as the subject of this post says, I wanna put some serious >distance between myself and windows. My two big concerns are that I am >badly addicted to World of Warcraft, and the fact that I have an iPod. I >have a subscription to Transgaming's Cedega, so I don't anticipate much >trouble there, however, the iPod issue is a serious one, as I plan on >using it to transfer my personal data to a new Linux installation, as >well as the fact that I am rather fond of it as a portable music player. >Any ideas or advice on getting either one, or both to work with Debian >(I used to run a functioning Debian mail server many years ago, so I'm >at least somewhat familiar with it) would be most appreciated. > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list "Great Spirits Have Always Encountered Violent Opposition From Mediocre Minds" - Einstein "Cuanta estupidez en tan poco cerebro!" _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list