Bean

With all the free time I've "aquired" as of late, I bought a second tower. It's a celeron 2.4 wuth 128 megs of ram, and a 40 gb hard drive. Nothing really special, but I got it for 150 bucks brand new, so I'm not complaining.

Now, my question is, what to do with it. I was thinking on making it a Win98 machine, so that I could have a machine to urn all those old games on that won't run in WinXP. The other option I was considering was throwing a copy of Mandrake on it and trying my hand at Linux.

Now, I DON'T want a dual boot machine, so what would your suggestion be and why? Teach myself Linux, or have a machine to run all those old games I've missed since XP?

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Cymro

What's wrong with making it a dual boot?

I'd probably go with Linux just for experimentation value, plus if you get tired of it you can always install 98. Although I'd advise trying to get 95 on it instead, because even with 98SE on the other partition, mine still fights with me when I want to play DOS games, and it wouldn't be Win9x without the instability .

Also, if you really want both, you could probably get an old workstation for nothing if you ask around a few offices, as they're always throwing away perfectly good machines.

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Was there ever a 98/XP compatable version?

Arik

Unless you've got a real big desire to learn Linux, or you've got a reason to learn it, go with the gaming machine.

Of course, it's not like you have to live with the decision you make for the rest of your life. You can uninstall and reinstall.

I am curious. What's your aversion to dual booting?

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Sirgets

i say linux ...just to play with it !!!

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Cymro

Maybe he has a small hard drive...heh heh heh...

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"But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those friendly, intelligent, wonderful people...will become as nasty and as violent as the most blood-thirsty klingon."

Gitch

It doesn't matter how big your hard drive is if its only 3.5 inches when its floppy.

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Arik

Yeah, but before you can play with it, you have to learn it. And that part's the bitch.

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Cymro

Yeah, but mines one of them old school 5 inch floppys.

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"But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those friendly, intelligent, wonderful people...will become as nasty and as violent as the most blood-thirsty klingon."

Gitch

Yeah, dusty, unreliable and unused since 1987.

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