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Originally posted by Cyrax9
If Pika has any good DOS preograms for Linux, tell me if they're availibel int he US, and for how much?
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DOSEMU, like is says on the tin, is a DOS emulator for Linux. I've not used it myself (seeing as I started using computers full time oooh less than a year ago, I don't have much experience or need of DOS).
As far as cost goes - as indeed the cost of almostevery GNU/Linux program - zilch. Totally free. Just click on that link, download the source code, compile it, install it and bingo. Anything you see released under the GPL (Gnereal public license) will cost you nothing other than the price of the internet connection downloading it.
Remember you can run Linux on a mac if you want to. My friend had a G4 TiBook, and he's running SuSE 7.3 as well as OS X. Personally, I'd just ditch OS X (it has to be said I don't like it very much at all) but what the hell.
Main thing I don't like about MacOS (at least the ones I've tried) is that it's an opaque operating system, and you can't see what it's doing, and I adore Linux for it's total transparency - there's no such things as hidden anything. Some people however do have a problem with this, as well as it being at heart a command line OS, so there's not as many flashing buttons and whirly gizmos. But you can do whate er you want with it, and (if you know how to code) radically alter bits of it too. If you're interested in coding, Linux comes with a great set of dev tools, including lots of compilers and such. Not that I can code mind.
As far as running windows progs under Linux goes, there are several apps out there to take care of this for you, the most famous being WINE (I believe a recursive acronym for WINE Is Not an Emulator) - like in
this screenshot. Some of them are quite good, but obviously there are still bugs. The nice thing about projects like WINE is that they tell you exactly what works and what doesn't. Most of the better emulators cost about $50, although I think WINE is still free (in any case, I've got it installed).
As far as the licensing goes, I wsa just joking really. I consider Adobe to be total bastards, so I don't really care about people pirating their stuff to their hearts content. Same goes for M$ too.
As far as people beig stupid with computers goes, I do my best to eductae people through all the meaningless and inexplicable jargon the industry invented in order to confuse people, with the hope that they actually get to kowe just what their computer can do/is doing- and hopefully abandon M$ in the process.