Subj : building PC's
To   : Rob Mccart
From : August Abolins
Date : Tue Jul 01 2025 18:54:00

Hello Rob!

** On Tuesday 01.07.25 - 01:34, Rob Mccart wrote to me:

 AA>> So.. experiment with different LIVE-CD distros and their
 >> different desktop flavours: Gnome, KDE, Xfce, etc.. whatever.

 RM> That might be worth a try. I was sort of hoping I might be
 RM> able to find a distro that would run in a Window in
 RM> Windows 7 to save having to reboot a CD or dual boot the
 RM> machine to get it running, something like DosBox but
 RM> running Linux..  But the computer is just a Dual Core
 RM> Compaq with 4 gig ram, AMD 1.3 Ghz with Radeon Graphics.
 RM> Not all that high end even when it was new

Take a look at CoLinux. http://www.colinux.org/?section=home

I just learned about that one from a friend who suggested I  
give it a go if I want to access linux command-line tools  
without having to boot to linux via live-cd when I just need  
the linx advantage occassionaly.

Right now, I use BusyBox for some occassional "tools".  But I  
like the idea of a whole linux environment at the ready. Sounds  
like CoLinux could do it.

I tried installing Oracle-VM (so that I could then install a  
linux of my choice), but Oracle-VM seemed to mess up my  
internet setting and I could nolonger get access to the  
internet.  So, I didn't get any further with that approach on  
my Win7 pc.


 RM> For the moment all I really need is something that can run
 RM> a new enough Browser that will work on the fussy sites. I
 RM> recently had to go to the Hydro site where you can apply
 RM> for the rebates and it totally refused to even try to load
 RM> on my Laptop browser. It was lots of fun trying to fill
 RM> these things out and do electronic signatures on my small
 RM> profile cell phone..

 RM> As I mentioned, I am running Opera, which uses the same
 RM> base as Chrome 109 from October 2023, the final Windows 7
 RM> version.

FireFox works well on Win7.  I use that for most banking and  
sites like you mentioned that have fancy java stuff for fill-in  
forms.

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