predicable answers above ;Dif you need a basic office type machine linux will do it
games are unlikely to be able to work (without fuckon or 'paying' for the privelege on top of the price of the game)
photoshop probably won't work well enough
the gimp is a pile of crap
(and gimpshop.. that was a oneoff and.. no.. just.. no)
if you have a spare machine lying about stick something like ubuntu or suse(slower but seems to have more drivers) to see if you can bear it
the driver situation in linux can be a fuckon, tho everyone seems to have lost the plot with drivers now for any hardware over 1 year old with vista as well, you will have to research 'does my thing work on this' either way
I'd say on balance stick with XP or 2K (tho I'd say xp) for now
If you couldn't give a shit about major applications and just want something for pissing about on the internet with, any major linux distro will do (driver issues notwithstanding) only hardware I have that won't work on linux is my lexmark printer, everyting else does
(games are unlikely to be able to work (without fuckon or 'paying' for the privelege on top of the price of the game)
photoshop probably won't work well enough
the gimp is a pile of crap
(and gimpshop.. that was a oneoff and.. no.. just.. no)
if you have a spare machine lying about stick something like ubuntu or suse(slower but seems to have more drivers) to see if you can bear it
the driver situation in linux can be a fuckon, tho everyone seems to have lost the plot with drivers now for any hardware over 1 year old with vista as well, you will have to research 'does my thing work on this' either way
I'd say on balance stick with XP or 2K (tho I'd say xp) for now
If you couldn't give a shit about major applications and just want something for pissing about on the internet with, any major linux distro will do (driver issues notwithstanding) only hardware I have that won't work on linux is my lexmark printer, everyting else does
discomeats This canoe,
Wed 14 May 2008, 21:05,
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This^Ubuntu does have a very good driver set. I have installed it on a host of odd machines and not had any problems.
Photoshop wont work unless you spend a fuckload of time pissing around with config files. I got CS2 working just but it took hours.
(Photoshop wont work unless you spend a fuckload of time pissing around with config files. I got CS2 working just but it took hours.
Aenesis,
Wed 14 May 2008, 21:10,
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most of the stuff that I actually need for doing serious work is on linux now anywayI just need to get my arse started
( discomeats This canoe,
Wed 14 May 2008, 21:13,
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I'm workingon a proposal for our Headteacher to see what the benefits of moving to Open Source software would be. I'm going to be testing Ubuntu server in the next week. The plan is in one year my school will be completely Microsoft/RM free. Our support cost would drop about £25k a year, this is cash we don't have.
( Aenesis,
Wed 14 May 2008, 21:16,
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ltsp is well worth itplus it means you can bin hard drives and cdroms from old machines completely so limiting user "fun" with them plus it extends the life of otherwise unusable for modern software machines
it will require a good server though
(it will require a good server though
discomeats This canoe,
Wed 14 May 2008, 21:22,
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