Posted on 02/01/2014 1:57:57 PM PST by ShadowAce
See my post this thread at #102. It might help. While I was specifically talking about Virtual Machines for industrial type applications, VMs are for anyone who has a few legacy apps that they just can't give up yet.
One thing that is important about running a virtual machine is that you should not be stingy with ram. Your computer will be using memory for the base operating system, as well as the virtual machine. Memory is a cheap trade off for the benefits IMO.
XP updates stop as of 4/2014, so any holes found after that date will go unplugged.
The reason I upgraded to 8.1 late last year.
"Unplugged" by the MS pukes, officially, yes -but the 'nix crowd has historically been the ones to first find and fix any difficulties arising and I do not see that as changing any time soon.
No. Wine development is getting better and better as more coders look at the underlying commands and figure out how to implement them with emulation, which is becoming more and more feasible as processor speeds and system memory increase over time. Also, as some have already mentioned, you can run a Virtual session under Linux which gives you all the advantages of running a much faster system on an older program without the same speed bottlenecks that might have hindered you in the past. The only drawback is a decrease in speed compared to if you were able to run those same programs in a native Linux version, but think of the possibilities instead!
Running a VM will mean that the software you need sees only what it needs to, and any difficulties arising can be quickly remedied with a simple re-launch of the VM when necessary. Much better than having to reinstall and then reconfigure an entire OS and third-party software programs every time.
“XP updates stop as of 4/2014, so any holes found after that date will go unplugged.”
It is just sad and maddening that the ONLY reason there is for me to do an upgrade or other alternative is that reason. I can find NO feature or capability that I need or want in an expensive, risky, and time-eating new Windows program.
When I purchase a new anything, I do so because the old one is worn out or I want some new capabilities. I can’t believe that some third party can’t take the new upgrades and come up with an equivalent one for XP for an annual subscription fee.
Ahhh! Yeah, they are special calibration capable cards. The monitors they drive are phenomenally expensive...10-20K for a monitor IIRC...
Yeah...that is the kind of issue we face institution-wide on a many times larger scale.
But it is just as problematic in small shop as you well know. The amount of cats to be herded is just smaller, that’s all...:)
I hear people say IT in medicine should be like buying stuff in Amazon, and I don’t think they have ever worked in a hospital!
I just installed Linux Mint on my XP machine and it can read and write to both my 500 gig boot drive and the 1.5 tb data drive with no problems. Haven’t played with DocX, but Linux can read the raw files from my cameras, which is pretty good.
I hear there are ticket machines still using OS/2
i am still using OS/2!!!! but in the home setting!!!! some atm’s still use it, and a few yrs ago i saw a Northwest airlines gate agent using OS/2 and a car repair i use is using OS/2
wow
BTTT
ya and IBM stopped support to OS/s in 2006, OS/2 is used in other country’s under the name Ecomstation or ECS, the programming community is very small but working hard to update the old girl.
about games on Linux
I just downloaded a PS One emulator and some PS One games. Some of them actually work relatively well. Which is a surprise.
Better than playing with DOS games.
Have you looked at MAME/MESS?
I wonder if I can load some of those old OS’s onto a CD or USB and boot them? Just for yuks.
i am not a big game player, but there are emulators out there and i guess you can run window games with wine too, i am sure some will correct if i am wrong!
No, is that a good game? I probably skip it because I have no idea what it is.
You can. Some of them. I don’t really have a graphics card but these older games are easy for my system.
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