Re:Question: Non OEM machines
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There are far more economic, not to mention far less onerous, alternatives out there.
If you mean "...than building your own", I disagree. Sure, you can get a PC for 3-400 bucks, but what about the quality? They're generally utter crap. Hell, most of the machines you can buy from brand-name companies are - they will cut corners on hardware on every single occasion. And I don't only mean bottom-of-the-line. We have bought a Micron Millenia XRU, 3 years ago - 'twas almost the top machine they were selling at that point - for image processing. The motherboard had to be replaced within 4 months.
I could give you several examples of the kind, that's why I always build my own home machine, with hand-picked components, checked for performance, reliability, compatibility, etc. - and I always end-up *much* cheaper (for the same quality) than if I got a premade computer. And, of course, I install Slackware on it:)
You may not want to belive me, but I did just that - on a Thinkpad I bought just when W95 came out as the next big thing and didn't ship on CD yet - I got a set of 27 or so disks with the machine. Then, a while later, I had to reinstall (of course...), so I did it from the floppies (the laptop didn't even have a CDROM drive). Oh, and that's not all: I have also installed OS2 from floppies, too:) Honest! That was only 22 floppies, though.
OK, I'll take the stand as a rabid Linux fan:) Here you go: an antique network card, Microdyne Exos 205 - windoze never supported it (there are DOS drivers though), but there is support in Linux. There!
Which version of wine was that? And which WMP (there are several)? The latest I've tried was the 5/29 CVS snapshot of wine with mplayer2 (version 6.4), and it wouldn't even load.
Exactly; they intend to provide a binary module taht could be used by Livid (at best, if they won't make the APIs available only to commercial products such as LinDVD from Intervideo). The discussion is going on the livid-dev mailing list, with someone from SiS.
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There are far more economic, not to mention far less onerous, alternatives out there.
:)
If you mean "...than building your own", I disagree. Sure, you can get a PC for 3-400 bucks, but what about the quality? They're generally utter crap. Hell, most of the machines you can buy from brand-name companies are - they will cut corners on hardware on every single occasion. And I don't only mean bottom-of-the-line. We have bought a Micron Millenia XRU, 3 years ago - 'twas almost the top machine they were selling at that point - for image processing. The motherboard had to be replaced within 4 months.
I could give you several examples of the kind, that's why I always build my own home machine, with hand-picked components, checked for performance, reliability, compatibility, etc. - and I always end-up *much* cheaper (for the same quality) than if I got a premade computer. And, of course, I install Slackware on it
You may not want to belive me, but I did just that - on a Thinkpad I bought just when W95 came out as the next big thing and didn't ship on CD yet - I got a set of 27 or so disks with the machine. Then, a while later, I had to reinstall (of course...), so I did it from the floppies (the laptop didn't even have a CDROM drive). Oh, and that's not all: I have also installed OS2 from floppies, too :) Honest! That was only 22 floppies, though.
OK, I'll take the stand as a rabid Linux fan :) Here you go: an antique network card, Microdyne Exos 205 - windoze never supported it (there are DOS drivers though), but there is support in Linux. There!
:)) How ironic :)) I'm doing almost the same, except I use the w98 dlls. OK, I'll try with the 05/26 release, maybe it makes a difference after all.
Which version of wine was that? And which WMP (there are several)? The latest I've tried was the 5/29 CVS snapshot of wine with mplayer2 (version 6.4), and it wouldn't even load.
No, it was completely reverse-engineered:
http://hem.fyristorg.com/henrikj/em8300/
Exactly; they intend to provide a binary module taht could be used by Livid (at best, if they won't make the APIs available only to commercial products such as LinDVD from Intervideo). The discussion is going on the livid-dev mailing list, with someone from SiS.
A binary-only module is exactly what they intend to deliver, as it was mentioned today on the livid-dev mailing list.