PC with only freeware programs?

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Since you mention CS, there is always Enemy Territory. Team-based 3D FPS,
based on id Softwares Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Totally free, available
for multiple OSes.
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Indeed there is and I have played them but the number of players us
shrinking alot now.

Still, there's always BZ Flag for a good freebie online blast.
 
Conor said:
Yes we know but its got shite gaming support as well as being
problematic with certain types of hardware such as Wifi.
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Dunno when you last tried Linux, but your comments are way out of date.
Pity you'll be stuck with Windoze for ever ...
 
Dunno when you last tried Linux, but your comments are way out of date.
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Mandrake 10.1 and SuSE 9.3 both with Cedega. Gave up trying to get WiFi
to work, even using ndiswrapper. Cedega has improved (Yes I have a
subscription) but it wouldn't run CS:S properly and refused to run
Colin McRae 2005 at all.

And having to piss about with nVIDIAs Linux drivers because I was using
SuSE 9.3, and hence an unsupported kernel, quite frankly pissed me off
because it was yet another thing that used to work on previous versions
but subsequenlty got tinkered with and broken.
Pity you'll be stuck with Windoze for ever ...
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Another Linux fanatic loonie. Stupid arse comments like that just put
people off trying Linux.
 
Apart from Windows OS, is it possible to make a complete working PC
with Filemanagment, Office pack, Graphics program, CD/DVD burner prg
etc with only FREEware prgs?
And it must only be fully funtional freeware, so no trial versions or
shareware.
It's kind of a bet, so please help me win this one :-)

Falcon
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Thanks alot for all the answers, And YES I knew I would win this one,
but I just had to convince my uncle :-)
I did think of Linux as well, but I have absolutely no experience with
it so I choose to stay with windows, but maybe I will try Linux on my
spare machine someday.

Thanks again

Falcon
 
Thanks alot for all the answers, And YES I knew I would win this one,
but I just had to convince my uncle :-)
I did think of Linux as well, but I have absolutely no experience with
it so I choose to stay with windows, but maybe I will try Linux on my
spare machine someday.
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You can try Linux without effecting your existing system by downloading
and burning a Bootable live Linux CD.

Ubuntu v5.04 Live CD
http://us.releases.ubuntu.com/releases/5.04/ubuntu-5.04-live-i386.iso

Kubunti v5.04 Live CD
http://releases.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/hoary/kubuntu-5.04-live-i386.iso
 
Falcon said:
Apart from Windows OS, is it possible to make a complete working PC
with Filemanagment, Office pack, Graphics program, CD/DVD burner prg
etc with only FREEware prgs?

Falcon
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Short answer is yes, as I have done this exact thing on my computer.

What you really have to figure out is what features you NEED and be
prepared to relearn the subtleties of the freeware applications. When
looking at software look for Open Source software or Freeware (owner
retains source code - free to use and distribute otherwise).

As for the Microsoft Access scenario. Access is actually the
combination of database, GUI front-end design and back-end programming
rolled into one. There are plenty of freeware relational databases,
database design tools, and query utilities; but no appllication which
bundles both database and GUI creation as freeware that I am aware of.
I haven't reviewed the OpenOffice V2.0 beta to check out the database
application so I'm not sure on it's capabilities - but I doubt they are
as comprehensive as Access. The Lazarus project is an attempt to create
a freeware alternative to Borland Delphi (which would take care of the
GUI and back-end coding) but is still early in development.

As others have mentioned, freeware Anti-Virus software in on-demand mode
is lacking (not sure about ClamWin's recent releases). Most of the rest
of the categories you shouldbe able to find adequate applications to
meet your needs, depending on how robust they are.

GNU Linux although a different OS platform than Windows is based
entirely on this free concept, so yes it can be done but it depends on
what your actual needs are.
 
Falcon a écrit :
Thanks alot for all the answers, And YES I knew I would win this one,
but I just had to convince my uncle :-)
I did think of Linux as well, but I have absolutely no experience with
it so I choose to stay with windows, but maybe I will try Linux on my
spare machine someday.

Thanks again

Falcon
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Take a look at this web page:
http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php
If you're not familiar with Linux this is a list of distros that'll run
from a CD without HD interaction (tho some it's at your choice). I
recently read an article by a tech writer who worked, wrote, etc an
entire week via a CD-based distro only.

By the way, I'm a self-employed web designer/photographer & all apps on
my Win2K laptop are free/open source.
 
Conor said:
Mandrake 10.1 and SuSE 9.3 both with Cedega. Gave up trying to get WiFi
to work, even using ndiswrapper. Cedega has improved (Yes I have a
subscription) but it wouldn't run CS:S properly and refused to run
Colin McRae 2005 at all.

And having to piss about with nVIDIAs Linux drivers because I was using
SuSE 9.3, and hence an unsupported kernel, quite frankly pissed me off
because it was yet another thing that used to work on previous versions
but subsequenlty got tinkered with and broken.



Another Linux fanatic loonie. Stupid arse comments like that just put
people off trying Linux.
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Go and play your games. Try Linux when you're a bit older, and have the
patience to work out what you did wrong.
 
Robin said:
Go and play your games. Try Linux when you're a bit older, and have the
patience to work out what you did wrong.
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Myself, I prefer waiting for Linux to get a bit older, when they have
worked out what is wrong.

Mark
 
Robin said:
Go and play your games. Try Linux when you're a bit older, and have the
patience to work out what you did wrong.
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Myself, I prefer waiting for Linux to get a bit older, when they have
worked out what is wrong.

Mark
 
Robin said:
Go and play your games. Try Linux when you're a bit older, and have the
patience to work out what you did wrong.
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I prefer to wait for Linux to get a bit older, give them so time to work
out what they have done wrong.

Mark
 
Myself, I prefer waiting for Linux to get a bit older, when they have
worked out what is wrong.

Mark
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I don't believe that there's anything still "wrong" with Linux - it
seems to do everything well on my other system. (So why am I running
Win2K on this one? It came with the computer, and I'm lazy...)
 
Kram said:
I prefer to wait for Linux to get a bit older, give them so time to work
out what they have done wrong.

Mark
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Go easy on the keyboard! Too much game play, I fear, leads to clumsiness
of all kinds ...
 
[SNIP usual stimulating banter between Linux and Windows "advocates"...]

Well, if it's "maturity" that you are looking for - Solaris 10 for
x86/x86-64/SPARC is a free download (requires registration) from Sun
Microsystems <http://www.sun.com>.

On PCs you need to have hardware that it supports (there is a Hardware
Compatibility List) as it is not quite so all-embracing as Windows or
Linux (or the BSDs, for that matter).

The CD ISOs (or DVD ISO) include such useful goodies as OpenOffice, vast
amounts of stuff from GNU, and who knows what else, I haven't really
looked too much.

There are also sites such as <http://www.blastwave.org> and
<http://www.sunfreeware.com> who build complete freeware packages for
download. Blastwave also uses a dependency mechanism so if you need,
say, Qt lib 4.x85.a12323243 then it will be installed as well.

Cheers,
Gary B-)
 
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