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Operating Systems Linux Will installing LINUX mean reinstalling my 3rd party apps? Post 302381281 by Korn0474 on Thursday 17th of December 2009 04:35:28 PM
Old 12-17-2009
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Originally Posted by dday
Don't let that stop you. Do a little research on the available applications and you may be happy to switch. I run Ubuntu on my laptop exclusively, though it dual boots Vista for my wife, who hates change. I have OpenOffice and lots of other open source apps that I've installed that let me do everything I was doing before. Even a couple dozen games to keep me occupied. So it's a viable alternative. I can be up and running in about 30 seconds and shutdown and powered off in about 10 or 12. It's fast and it works. Give it a shot.

And I have to say here... so indulge me...
"Windows, we don't need no stinking Windows... "
Thanks. You and Jim both mention a dual boot setup. That's sounds like maybe a good place to start. Baby steps and all that. But you also mentioned that installing it will reformat my drive during installation. Is that true even if you configure it for dual boot?
 

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SPLASHY(1)						 Splashy POSIX boot splash system						SPLASHY(1)

NAME
Splashy - a user-mode, POSIX and LSB compliant, boot splashing system for UNIX. SYNOPSIS
splashy { boot | shutdown | test | preview } splashy_chvt { TTY_NUMBER } DESCRIPTION
Splashy displays an image and a progress bar at boot time. When called as splashy_chvt, it allows the same functionality as the UNIX command chvt. OPTIONS
boot Does boot sequence. See EXAMPLES. shutdown Does shutdown sequence. See EXAMPLES. test, preview Use to test splashy without having to reboot the system. this shows a progressbar continuously moving as well as the current image for the currently selected theme. See EXAMPLES. EXAMPLES
"/sbin/splashy test" Used to test splashy. Useful for testing new themes. "/sbin/splashy boot" Used when booting your system. This is run automatically by a initrc script during boot. "/sbin/splashy shutdown" Similar in spirit to boot, but run during shutdown. This is run automatically by a initrc script during shutdown. FILES
/etc/splashy/config.xml Main configuration. defines how splashy should be setup. /etc/splashy/themes/default/config.xml Default theme. defines how the images displayed by splashy should be setup, their location and other theme-related variables. NOTES
To use splashy as chvt, make a symbolic link from splashy's location to a new path. i.e.: cd /sbin; ln -s splashy splashy_chvt SEE ALSO
splashy_config(1), splashy_update(1), splashy-config.xml(5), splashy-theme.xml(5) AUTHORS
Luis Mondesi <lemsx1@gmail.com> perl v5.12.1 2010-07-05 SPLASHY(1)
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