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1st November 2005, 01:47 am

I have some embroidery software that only runs in windows, which is lame, but.. I digress…  I’m really not feelin’ it to go license windows, so I’m going to try to run a Linux, and then WINE to run the Win32 binaries. I’ve tried:

  • generations live CD
  • Suse
  • Debian
  • knoppix
  • Mepis
  • SLAX (Kill Bill version)
  • Ubuntu
  • BeatrIX

Slax is fast, supposedly has WINE preloaded, and has an installer.  So far, so good.  Mepis was fairly smooth as well, but, it couldn’t autoconfigure it’s networking junk…  Knoppix seemed ok, but it was in german, and I couldn’t figure out how to load up the language module correctly.  Debian was ok, but.. is minimal.  I messed around with apt-get for a long long time, but, eventually, I’m finding that my life is too short to become an expert at an OS that I’m going to use to emulate an OS I don’t want to run.  BeatrIX hung on the network configuration. Ubuntu had problems with the disk image not matching the MD5 hash…

Slax is running into problems with the installer. :(  This is really bumming me out because Slax was really working well for me up until that point.. but, if I can’t install it on a hard drive document in  Virtual PC, that means I can’t save anything, and I can’t  stick any other CDs in the drive…  which ain’t gonna cut it if I can’t load up my embroidery software…  sigh.

Folks, this is why Linux isn’t winning on the desktop. It’s just too hard for a dumb schmoe like me to get it running as cleanly as mac os x. 

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