How To Run Windows 3.1 on DOSBox – inside Windows or Linux!

Posted by: Rea Maor In: Linux and Unix

Step one: You’ll need DOSBox installed and running. The latest release, 0.72, runs exceptionally well and gets rid of the old lag issues with previous versions, so that’s what I’m using here. You should probably not go into the DOSBox forums talking about this – running Windows isn’t what they had in mind with this [...]


People Who’ve Never Run Linux Shouldn’t Write About Linux

Posted by: Rea Maor In: Linux and Unix

The title of this post occurred to me when I read the post Our Linux Dream. Somehow, even though people get the idea that specialized fields require some experience in that field before you can say anything intelligent about it, people hear the word “Linux” for the first time, Google it long enough to see [...]


If You Can’t Buy Friends, What Do You Have Left?

Posted by: Rea Maor In: Linux and Unix

Mandriva, the French Linux distribution, and Microsoft recently got tied into a little drama over in, of all places, Nigeria. And speculation went wild, and when the truth outed, it proved beyond anybody’s guess. So, Mandriva sells 17,000 Classmate PC laptops to the school district of Nigeria, and the laptops will have Mandriva pre-installed. The [...]