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Today I have started to work on phasing microsoft out of my life.

This means no more FreeSpace 2 after a while

I _may_ keep a windblows system around to play it though... just depends... im prolly leaning tword that... but i do need to get out of M$ dependancy

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so what exactly does this mean in regards to your work here? Hope it won't impact it too much, it'd be terrible for the whole community to see you leave.

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Originally posted by Kazan
Today I have started to work on phasing microsoft out of my life.

This means no more FreeSpace 2 after a while

I _may_ keep a windblows system around to play it though... just depends... im prolly leaning tword that... but i do need to get out of M$ dependancy

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MS was formed from mac.... linux is the only thing i can think of

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you could also get a SUN box. But then you wouldn't be able to do anything except highly advanced engineering.

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Im going linux naturally

ivanenski: FreeSpace 2 doesn't run on anything other than windblows

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Consider IRIX. It's got a spline based interface! Very stable too.

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n0 w4y d00d, BeOS 4EVAR!!!!!!!!!!11111111

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You can always set up a dual (or duel) boot. A 5 GB partition should hold WinX, FS2, and whatever TBP stuff you need.

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Heya Kazan, please try Windows XP. It works great on my system.

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yeah XP is faster then W2K but it takes allot of disk space but they say its the best OP sys ewer done my brother sys the same so take XP

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Heya Kazan, please try Windows XP. It works great on my system.

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Actually W95 and W98 has much more bugs than WinXP.
Haven't heard much any real problems. mostly software and driver issues or just a dumb user.

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Kazan please tell me you have a reason for getting rid of Microsoft stuff and you're not just another clueless yob that just says "yeah I hate Bill gates Microsoft are crap"

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Heya Kazan, please try Windows XP. It works great on my system.

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And the MLB is secretly watching from their spy satellite in orbit too.

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BTW, has XP fixed the bug that happens when installing new hardware. I mean the one that tries to look for driver files from E:\WIN9X, when it should be E:\WIN98. I think that bug has been there since the first version of win95, and it was also in win98.

I even had a bet with my friend that Microsoft doesn't fix this bug in XP, have they?

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I don't know anything about that bug...

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Welcome to My World Derek

Glad to hear that Derek ..Im on LInux for almost 4-5 years..
Let see ...

Slackware
Rh52
RH60
Corel Linux 1
RH61
Madrake 7.2(I alos have now a 8.0 ) - I recomend it
Suse 63
RH70
SOON to COME RH71(first with KDE2 incorporated)

one thing u will miss ...MSDN ..u don't have the save structured organisation of information....

for Koding ..Kdevelop 1.4.........2 in alfa's....... the bad part is the we only have Blender for 3d (full freeeware)
I recomed also GIMP)

an if u have powerfull PUTER... u can always run Win98 inside a linux box VMWARE

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are you out of your mind? that is the biggest piece of monopoly locking software ever out of microsoft.

not to mention 1/5th of the code in it is for spyware

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Stupid fact (1) - It takes 48 hours (I tihnk - ages, anyway) to compile the source code for XP on 40 machines

Stupid fac(2) - Microsfot didn't make the first windows O/s - they leased it from another company, and sold it on to other compaines.

OPk, proper stuff now.

Kazan, it would be a shame if you left, especially as I like annoying you with Blender (muwuahah!). Hopefully you can find some sort of compromise, as it would be a great shame to lose your skills to the community.

but, if you're that unhappy with MS, then fair enuff. Do what you gotta do.

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