.I have been looking for two things;
One, a way to extend the usefulness of older equipment and a way to "stick-it to MicroSoft" and I think I have found it, at least in part.
For those of use that cannot afford "up-grades" and higher end equipment but still have to pay the "cost of doing business", Freespire looks to be a viable alternative, whats great about it is that you can "kick the tires" using a virtual system with their "LiveCD" and not effect your other installations or OS'S!
The other and, to me, attractive system is:
"Dynebolic", an other Linux "Distro" live CD!
For those of us that are into multi-media production this is "the tip of the ice-burg" senerio.
It ain't quite there yet but when I booted up on the "live-cd" , your not going to believe this but, EVERYTHING WORKED!"
Both cd/dvd drives, scanner, surround sound, Cinelerra, Kino, etc.,. you name it, it WORKED!
How ever, I could not set dual monitors and/or resolutions for my monitors.
This "distro" is fabulous for multi-media personel, and it's free!
Here's the kicker, the entire system will run from the cd and I will guarentee that you will notice little or no lag from running it from the cd or the hard drive, stop and think about that for a moment!
I am presently running: Win2K Pro, dual-boot with Freespire , AND DYNEBOLIC (docked) from the cd and it does not effect anything else that I do.
Can't explain better, you must go look at it!
Regards,
Jay F.
