chappell101

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Getting Started with Wine on Mac OS X (Download Squad)

Jan 7th 2010 11:50AM I use WineBottler too, it is a lot more user friendly and makes windows applications into single file (Archive Technically) like normal Mac Apps which you can even share with other Mac users without Wine installed by embedding it in the file.

10+ free, fast-booting Linux distros that aren't Chrome OS (Download Squad)

Dec 31st 2009 9:31AM So today's post encouraged me to take the time to try out TinyCore Linux and MenuetOS before I try the new WattOS in the new year to see if it can replace SliTaz. TinyCore Linux 2.7 very fast if you manually install to the HDD, but the flash playback has a very crackly sound. Opera 10 is also much faster than Firefox 3.5.5 as my normal choice Chromium fails to load. MenuetOS is now 64bit so I had to find a forked 32bit build for such and old system as mine. KolibriOS is that respin but it doesn't have a browser/flash application unlike MenuetOS but I will keep playing as the system is almost instant loading.

10+ free, fast-booting Linux distros that aren't Chrome OS (Download Squad)

Dec 30th 2009 4:28PM I love lightweight OS's that help prove that efficient application and OS design can make even a 8 year old laptop functional to a user once again, let alone help develop applications that run quick enough to suppress our modern PC impatience even on a new multi-core PC's thanks to lazy bloated coding.

Slax was my first experience of Linux in its LiveCD days and its pleasing results helped move some of our household computers permanently to Ubuntu a few years back. Recently though I have been trying to push every last bit of juice out of our oldest surviving computer a 1GHZ VAIO laptop with 256MB of RAM. In my quest I have successfully tried out WattOS a Ubuntu derivative designed to save battery life by running lightweight but usable applications (New Release Soon), XPud which runs deceptively quick in VM but in real life has graphics issues/doesn't support its Ethernet and is much slower. I'm currently using the speedy SliTaz 2.0 on the laptop as the cooking versions flash/sound is broken.

I'm intending to try going smaller than SliTaz's 30MB though after getting the lightweight bug with TinyCore Linux which is 10MB and MenuetOS which is about 2MB thanks to being built in assembly code.