![]() ![]() “Microsoft lost its appeal of a European antitrust order Monday that obliges the technology giant to share communications code with rivals,…” Ruling says that Microsoft needs to only release the protocol documentation.Īrticle headline: Microsoft must share code, pay EU fine It seems that nobody here bothered to read the article. To be entirely honest - not being able to run Flash 8 was the only thing that was keeping windows on this machine.īgDM, that’s extremely misleading. I can run Blender 2.42, 2.44, 2.45, Flash8Pro(portable version - full install version won’t work for me), skype, Audacity, Cinelerra, Acrobat, Xchm & uTorrent and many others either natively or using wine. ![]() There’s a program or 2 here and there that doesn’t like me, but most of the time it’s just due to libraries which I can download and update anyway. after establishing that Puppy 2.15 & Freespire 1.0.0.3 would connect to the net, I tried both then installed Freespire and haven’t looked back. I got bitten about 3 or 4 times and tired of the routine of install, try, fail & repeat - so I just went for the LiveCd ones. If you can, just get a bunch of Live CDs & try them out. Xubuntu Studio would have been very pleasant. :grrr: Nor would Ubuntu - it’s a damn shame, cos I don’t mind a nice lite OS. I’ve also had success with PuppyLinux 2.16 - The community version with more packages and nicer graphics (2.15) won’t play ball either. I’ve found Freespire 1.0.0.3 (The new one, 2.something DOESN’T work anymore:mad:) will play ball with it. I’ve so far had success with just two flavours of Linux!! For what it’s worth, it’s a Netcomm something or other, using a Lucent/Agere chipset. The biggest problem I’ve also had, is getting them to play nicely with my WinModem. Much like the way 3d cards took a while to take off, on account of the respective vendors not releasing the code & being somewhat tardy in their effort to do Linux drivers. To be entirely honest, I’d be a little surprised if it was a matter of Microsoft not playing ball - I’m a little more inclined to think it’s a matter of the modem manufacturers not being prepared to share code that’s the problem. From Solaris to Suse to Fedora to Puppy to blah, blah, blah. ![]() I’ve got about 12 different distros of Linux. Uh-huh, been there done that, bought the t-shirt. I’d like to use Linux but if I can’t get it on the internet than it’s a non-starter. ![]()
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