Like has been said multiple times.
XP profesional (or media centre, since that's professional + some stuff) and Ubuntu.
Building new computer - what OS?
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~1 year ago, I was dual-booting fine, and then I just though... What's the point?
I don't need a weird addiction to a particular video game: the occasional bout of spring will do just fine.
So I say, install fedora 7 (or 8 when it comes out) (fedora.redhat.com), and forget about MS Windows.
...obvious point that noone else has made: this is a spring forum; spring runs on GNU/Linux; no need for any other inferior OS :)
I don't need a weird addiction to a particular video game: the occasional bout of spring will do just fine.
So I say, install fedora 7 (or 8 when it comes out) (fedora.redhat.com), and forget about MS Windows.
...obvious point that noone else has made: this is a spring forum; spring runs on GNU/Linux; no need for any other inferior OS :)
my point exactlysnow93 wrote:~1 year ago, I was dual-booting fine, and then I just though... What's the point?
I don't need a weird addiction to a particular video game: the occasional bout of spring will do just fine.
So I say, install fedora 7 (or 8 when it comes out) (fedora.redhat.com), and forget about MS Windows.
...obvious point that noone else has made: this is a spring forum; spring runs on GNU/Linux; no need for any other inferior OS :)
Cedega/wine runs most things fine too
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PauloMorfeo
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The limitation of sistems at 32bits, like the regular windows XP, is 4 GBs of RAM for each CPU. I doubt you will need to have more than 4 GBs of RAM until you buy a new PC.
And i hear that there are still issues with WinXP-64 bits, especially on drivers for it, especially now that companies will be taking more efforts for vista than XP... So, my advice, stick with 32 bits.
In fact, even in Linux i would recomend sticking to 32 bits, since for Linux-64 bits there seems to not be the library Win32, which has codecs for some very comon media types that are used in windows.
Ho, and i see discussion about WinXP Pro. I advise not. It is far, far more expensive than WinXP Home while the most of it's advantages are only usefull in companies (like the ability to have the system join and authenticate to a Domain).
And i hear that there are still issues with WinXP-64 bits, especially on drivers for it, especially now that companies will be taking more efforts for vista than XP... So, my advice, stick with 32 bits.
In fact, even in Linux i would recomend sticking to 32 bits, since for Linux-64 bits there seems to not be the library Win32, which has codecs for some very comon media types that are used in windows.
Ho, and i see discussion about WinXP Pro. I advise not. It is far, far more expensive than WinXP Home while the most of it's advantages are only usefull in companies (like the ability to have the system join and authenticate to a Domain).
