Please recommend a "Windows like" UNIX flavour

[bert]

In message , News writes

I run TP6 on W7 32 bit. Not perfect but acceptable

[meow2222]

It was only months ago, with 14 or 15.

What you want may be

I assume we're using and doing different things.

NT

[tony sayer]

In article , News scribeth thus

TP ver 5.02 runs fine under win 7 32 bit, it's 64 bit that you have to do some jiggery pokery...:)...

As do I believe later versions..

[tony sayer]

For a start!, the news reader is excellent and well the e-mail client what's wrong with it?..

I do have TB on some machines elsewhere and it works, but no thanks for day 2 day use..

[Adrian C]

That would probably be the withdrawal of the Medibuntu repo?

[The Natural Philosopher]

time it was ported to Linux then.

I do use Tbird on a daily basis, but it is somewhat larger than I would like and has too many features I don't want or need.,

[The Natural Philosopher]

easily fixed...

I already had what they provided, but compiling the necessary new libraries from source was trivial.

[cl]

Yes, you just tell VirtualBox to present it to the guest system as a shared drive.

[chris French]

In message , tony sayer writes

Turnpike 5 will run under WINE IIRC, but not 6

[chris French]

In message , tony sayer writes

Turnpike 6 runs fine on 32bit Win7 (a little bit of mneu oddity or something can't remember it's ages since I used it on an earlier version of windows) But it won't run on 64 bit

I used to be a confirmed Trunpiker, but then I got a smartphone and the drift away started. I read most of my mail on the phone nowadays I think, which then lead to the desire for an IMAP email client.

Though actually nowadays I find that routing the mail via Gmail or Outlook.com and then using the web interface for those works fine for when I'm not on the phone.

So nowadays I only use TP for news - and for that I have it running on a win7 machine and access it via remote desktop if I m using another machine

[The Natural Philosopher]

I hated giving up Eudora mail...

Sort of used to thunder bollox now.

It all right.

[mick]

You seem to be easily put off. ;) The unix/linux world is crawling with news & mail clients. You are free to mix and match anything you like. Personally, I like Pan as a newsreader but Gmail for my (admittedly small in quantity and low in importance) emails. That's because I came to linux from a windows background, I suppose. If you prefer command line stuff then there are newsreaders like tin and trn. You even get to choose your favourite text editor - which you can use for everything if you like. :)

It appears that all versions of turnpike work using Win4Lin, but that's proprietary software that will cost you money. Still, if you're desperate...

[tony sayer]

Well been using WIN 7 pro for some time and it behaves, runs what we use and no real need to change .. it ain't broke so;.....

[tony sayer]

Why ?, see the other post...

I know of two real IT pros around this way who used to use Linux but seem to be more than happy with WIN 7 these days..

[polygonum]

Though with 100W suggested/promised for future incarnations of USB, maybe the gap is not as great as all that?

[Adrian Brentnall]

Yes - and the Crossover folks.... It's probably solvable - given a spare bucket of time to throw at it..... but, as I say, it was frustrating, given that it 'so nearly' worked.. Zorin looked good, found peripherals etc, ran fairly fast...

[news]

Can one take an image of a pc running xp in one pc and run it as virtual machine in another?

AJH

[Jethro_uk]

Yes, but ISTR this is a paid for feature in most virtualisation rigs.

[Adrian C]

VMWare vCenter Converter is free (after registration)

You can create a cloned machine with it from a running machine and then run up the image in VmWare Player or Virtual Box.

Computer Shopper March 2014 had something on it, but google around. There are other P2V tutorials out there.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Not easily, but yes you can.

What you have to do is disable the propensity of windows to only boot from the disk it was installed from. That's a registry hack or there is a tool.

Then you have to take an image of the entire thing including boot sector. The easy way is to plug the XP disk into the linux machine and dd it across in its entirety. Then stick it back in its winmdows box

Then you can umport that into virtual box.

You may also need to remove or rename one or possibly two dlls that deal with the screen video driver,

There may be other things like 'found new hardware' etc etc on first boot too.

But so long as you get the screen right, that's easy enough. If te screen ain't right first boot will be tricky

There's a page of instructions on how to do that somewhere on the net.