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| DATE | 2004-09-04 |
| FROM | Billy
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] Re: Advocacy vs. Zealotry vs. Who Cares?!?
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On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 10:14:32AM -0500, Steve Milo wrote:
> One question.
>
> Why are you uing windows?
Because I have exotic hardware (Sony TR2). Notably, I have a 1280x768
display that XF86 can only use 1024x768 of. It also has a camera that's
useless on Linux, and an internal Bluetooth adapter that's useless on
Linux (I think there's hope for that if I wanted to really work on it,
though). The external display connector which I depend on for getting
real work done doesn't work on Linux except as a 1024x768 mirror of the
laptop screen (on Windows I can use it as a 1600x1200 desktop
extension). There's a closed-source X server that has a real driver for
this chip, though. I don't want to give them $25.
Forget about 3D acceleration. One of the big things for my everyday
laptop use is being able to sleep/hibernate the machine and put it in my
bag. I can't reliably do this on Linux. Maybe that's possible: maybe
it's my fault. I'm tired of struggling all weekend to get stuff like
that to work.
So what I'm doing is running Gentoo on colinux on WindowsXP Pro, with
lots of help from Cygwin (especially its ssh and X server). WindowsXP
handles all of the hardware, and Gentoo does all of my real work.
If you don't know about colinux, it's a usermode Linux kernel running as
a windows process. Seems really miraculous somehow, except that dates
get screwed up for some reason. Anyway, I run that, and it uses
a ethertap driver to present a virtual NIC on whatever LAN my laptop
is on and get itself an IP address. I can ssh to that address and
start running X programs on my Windows desktop. Not very easy to do,
the X buttons are screwed up, it's and kind of an unwieldy process,
but that's what I'm doing.
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