On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 10:52:06 -0500, in
internal.mailing-list.computers.pc-build you wrote:

> Microsoft never intended to support Win Me, which iw why software
> developers merely did patchesfor their stuff to run on Win Me.  It was
> just another grab for money until they finished the real project, Win
> XP.  As I did with Win 98, I'll be spending a lot of time tweaking Win
> Me, and finding workarounds if and until I decide I want to indenture
> myself to Bill Gates by buying Win XP.  Hopefully someone will come
> out with an OS that runs out of the box, is stable, and which will
> motivate programmers to write apps for it.  I have a lot of good stuff
> that works on Win 98, and am not prepared to take a big financial hit
> by throwing it away at this point for an OS that none of it will run
> on.

I know how you feel.  I would love to dump Windows and move to Linux.
I know they have Wine, which I assume is a Windows emulator on which I
could run my mail/newsreader, but will it run all my favorite
Windows98 programs, or does it just happen to work well with Agent?
What about my Winmodem?  Will a winmodem work under Wine?
Furthermore, I have a lot of customizations I've installed to Internet
Explorer.  Does the Linux Netscape have as many of those well used
features?

I may give Linux a try once I get my satellite internet access up and
running.  But even then, I'll need a partition with Win98 so I can
play games and things like that.

Ethan

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