Wine Is Not an Emulator...
Rather strange Acronym for a pretty great piece of software! I've been playing around with wine lately and it seems like a pretty great thing. I can run IE(internet exploder(explorer...)) and also Opera and firefox pretty well which makes it so much easier to watch those little flash videos lately! Adobe doesn't seem to care about their linux users, which is really sad...
Anyways, I found this great place called Franks Corner which I think is one of the WINE developers site... anyways, it has a bunch of programs that are known to actually work under wine. Many Programs work under wine but it's not perfect. Oftimes it's unstable and a lot of things don't work. They've done pretty good though for what they've got!
I hear windows is actually switching to the linux base... maybe, well they didn't actually say that they were switching to the linux base but were going to make windows and linux more cross-compatable. So, maybe not really the linux base. Probably the windoze base with linux cammands. how... wonderfully terrible. But maybe after a few years windows will finally get it straight and switch to the linux base. Mac has been doing very well since they've done that! Many people have been buying Macs lately because they're known for their great stability. I'd use Mac more often but, they aren't open source and that hinders from the most usage. If they were more open source, it'd be great :D.
well... I guess that's all for now folks!
Monday, January 29, 2007
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Friday, January 19, 2007
ahh yess, Linux nice and confy here!
A story here about me and Linux:
Over the past few days, I've been using my sisters computer for my browsing and other purposes. Now, the reasion I was using her computer was not necesarily because I couldn't use any of the other computers but, because her computer is far more comfortable due to having all my locations all ready in my opera. So, my sister still likes to use her computer so she complained that I need to find another computer to use.
So, what did I do? I(with the help of my brother) got another computer set up with X11 forewarding and simply ssh'd in and typed in "opera" and wa la! I'm using the same opera I'm used to :).
Now, tell me you can do that with wondows! I don't know if you can but, I really doubt it's that easy :). How do you enable X11 forewarding? well, in ubuntu it's rather simple. you simply su to root. cd over to /etc/ssh/ and type "nano ssh_config". Then, once you're inside there's a part just down there called "host *" and all you do is change the "#Foreward X11 no" to "Foreward X11 yes"(remove # sign) and do the same for X11 tRusted :). Then it should work great! Oh yeah, in Nano you'll have to do ctrl+O and ctrl+X to exit :).
And That Should do it!
Have Fun :)
Over the past few days, I've been using my sisters computer for my browsing and other purposes. Now, the reasion I was using her computer was not necesarily because I couldn't use any of the other computers but, because her computer is far more comfortable due to having all my locations all ready in my opera. So, my sister still likes to use her computer so she complained that I need to find another computer to use.
So, what did I do? I(with the help of my brother) got another computer set up with X11 forewarding and simply ssh'd in and typed in "opera" and wa la! I'm using the same opera I'm used to :).
Now, tell me you can do that with wondows! I don't know if you can but, I really doubt it's that easy :). How do you enable X11 forewarding? well, in ubuntu it's rather simple. you simply su to root. cd over to /etc/ssh/ and type "nano ssh_config". Then, once you're inside there's a part just down there called "host *" and all you do is change the "#Foreward X11 no" to "Foreward X11 yes"(remove # sign) and do the same for X11 tRusted :). Then it should work great! Oh yeah, in Nano you'll have to do ctrl+O and ctrl+X to exit :).
And That Should do it!
Have Fun :)
Saturday, January 13, 2007
surfing for stuff
I've been trying to install a version of ubuntu on a system of mine but, I haven't been able to get it installed... The live CD apears to be burning wrong or something because, it doesn't get past a certain point. I think I may have ruined a dvdrw drive too... maybe, still have to look at it though. Anyways, aside from that, Yesterday I decided to go looking around for some other linux distros to see if there was any other ones out there that might work well... I found another blogspot blog here and it seemed to have some good posts... I had done a google search so it brought me to this post which seemed to have some good info(even though it was pretty old).
So, I'd recomend checking out that blog for some of the latest updates... I'm thinking I may actually try "linux from scratch" but I may not, depending on what I feel like :). well, I'll see you all later!
So, I'd recomend checking out that blog for some of the latest updates... I'm thinking I may actually try "linux from scratch" but I may not, depending on what I feel like :). well, I'll see you all later!
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