now for the vision

Thanks, I didn't know about tina-vision. I see they mention using it with the knoppix distribution. All the more incentive to get up to speed with learning how to write c programs in a Linux environment.

For some reason, after running knoppix and simplyMempis, the computer played up by trying to do something, resulting in making Windows too slow and unworkable. The keyboard kept flashing its Num, Caps and Scroll lights on/off and I couldn't type anything. I was only able to disable whatever it was by disabling the CDROM as an option for booting in the BIOS. I had to swap the booting from HD to CD for knoppix and back again to boot up in Windows.

I guess the only safe option is to devote a computer to Linux all by itself.

John

Have you used any other tools, or are you using tina? Which tools do you recomend?

JGCASEY wrote: [snip]

John,

Sure, but a dual boot scenario works equally well. I have used LILO (the LInux LOader) for years to boot various versions of Windows and Linux on the same machine. I do install Linux in separate partitions, however.

Jeff.