need help... got an old os i can have??

[wingnut 0]

okay so i just got a 4 port kvm switch and have my athlon xp2500+, duron 1300mhz and a pentium3 433mhz going....... running windows xp on the athlon, windows 2000 on the duron and need an operating system for the pentium........... so.... anybody got an old copy of windows 98 laying around?????????? or maybe a copy of linux.. don't know a thing about it but i'm willing to learn.... pretty much got em running all atthe same time so i can do folding@home out the wazooooo............... cool anybody got anythng let meknow... or sugestions on where to find something cheap.....legaly.... i'm all legal on my computer stuff finally after being a pirate for so long.........

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[dbattman 0]

Red Hat is a free download.

I think I have my old MS-DOS 5.0 floppies lying around if you remember how to use naked DOS. Fun, fun, fun!

[wingnut 0]

i know how to use dos ... c:\dir /p ........ got to have whatever on bootable cd rom.... it's all i got on the pentium.. no flopy drive....

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[indyz 1]

You can burn your own Linux install CDs free and legal. Just go to LinuxISO, pick your distribution (RedHat 9 is a good starting point) and go.

If I had that much crap laying around I'd try and collect some unusual ones:
- BeOS
- QNX
- Longhorn (there's a prerelease out there somewhere)
- Solaris
- HURD
- Darwin

[Amazon 7]

Uh.. Wingi dear..... what do you want.

just give me an Addy to send it to

[wingnut 0]

thanks for the link.... looks ike i will be using linux............... hopefull it isn't to ccomplicated to learn... i'm fairly up with computers but moe along the lines of hardware than software but an hold my own...... i guess it will just take some time... don't need the system anyways other thanto play around with......

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[ChasingBlueSky 0]

You can learn Linux in a weekend, esp if you pick up "linux for dummies"

However, it can take a while to really become a master at it.

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[AggieDave 6]

BeOS...noice, haven't heard that mentioned in a long damn time. I've played with a couple PBXes that actually ran BeOS a number of years ago...

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[indyz 1]

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BeOS...noice, haven't heard that mentioned in a long damn time. I've played with a couple PBXes that actually ran BeOS a number of years ago...

BeOS was so far ahead of it's time, and the BeBox (dedicated Be hardware) was incredible as well. Someday I want to get a BeBox, but there were only 1800 made, and 800 of those had the "good" (dual 133Mhz PowerPC) processors. Every once in a while one shows up on eBay, but they usually go for $500-1000. Too rich for my college student blood.

Right now in retrocomputing land I have my eyes on a NeXTstation Turbo. Mmm, Lisp.

[WrongWay 0]

I have every version of Windows since 3.1, linux is free, and if you can, try to find the Beer OS.

PM me if ya want anything.

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[wingnut 0]

okay got red hat linux vers.9 going on my computer... now 'm run into a stumbling block... downloaded the folding at home console from the site and tried to install it.... says i need a program to run the .exe.... i thought the .exe was a program.... or is this just my dos thinking.....anyhelp anyone????

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[indyz 1]

On Linux and most other non-Windows OSes, the file extension doesn't really mean much. You need to tell the system that the program is executable. Do that by opening a terminal, going to the same directory where you downloaded the client, then running:

chmod +x FAH4Console-Linux.exe

Then run this command to start the client:

./FAH4Console-Linux.exe

The period and slash at the beginning are important.

[Jimbo 0]

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If I had that much crap laying around I'd try and collect some unusual ones:
- BeOS
- QNX
- Longhorn (there's a prerelease out there somewhere)
- Solaris
- HURD
- Darwin

Solaris is unusual?

I remember back in the day that the folks at QNX used to distribute a floppy image that booted the OS, an X session (complete with browser), and a PPP/SLIP (anyone remember SLIP?) dialer. Not bad for a floppy.

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[wingnut 0]

thanks dude,,,,,,,

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[RevJim 0]

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BeOS...noice, haven't heard that mentioned in a long damn time. I've played with a couple PBXes that actually ran BeOS a number of years ago...

BeOS was so far ahead of it's time, and the BeBox (dedicated Be hardware) was incredible as well. Someday I want to get a BeBox, but there were only 1800 made, and 800 of those had the "good" (dual 133Mhz PowerPC) processors. Every once in a while one shows up on eBay, but they usually go for $500-1000. Too rich for my college student blood.

Right now in retrocomputing land I have my eyes on a NeXTstation Turbo. Mmm, Lisp.

Retrocomputing. Haven't heard that term in a bit.

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