Re: Dual boot options?

Here in alt.msdos, Day Brown <daybrown@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> spake unto us, saying:

>My low income, sense of frugality, and environmental sensibilities
>dont leave the PC on all the time, so I appreciate a quick boot and
>shutdown. Next to dos, OS2 is the best I've seen, and I have it
>installed on another platform that I could install the os2 versions of
>mozilla and tbird. But well meaning folks keep sending me links to
>youtube so I have some idea of what's on National TV without having
>to actually watch all the bullschitt myself.

Several versions of a native Flash 7 player for OS/2 exist, so you may
be able to use sites like YouTube under either OS/2 or eCS.

I'm not sure, since this OS/2 box (a Pro/200) does not have the raw CPU
power to view that category of flash data.  :-)  But I do use Flash 7
under Firefox 1.5.0.11 on this box on other sites just fine (for menus
and basic animations, but not full-motion video).

>So- I see mention of os2, ecomstation, & BEOS. Any other alternatives?

Well, free versions of Solaris, Free/Open/NetBSD, and other UNIX-alike
and/or UNIX deriviatives exist, but those will have many of the same
idiosyncrasies that you find in Linux.

I find myself partial to smaller Linux "LiveCD" distros like Puppy or
DSL (DamnSmallLinux), mainly because they run on my older hardware and
are not so bogged down with unwanted eyecandy.

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