. Hey keep this thread going! I just bought a new Alienware system, have setup multi partitions, and am now trying to drink up the nerve to install Ubuntu as a dual boot without hosing the original XP OS. My goal is to learn linux well enuf so I never need MS again - I do not, nor will ever have, vista. Obviously, one of the first things I will do with it is Xfractint. I played around with it a little a few years ago on Mandrake 8.1 but I was not impressed, maybe its better now ... .
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 22:30 +0000, jackoftradez@comcast.net wrote:
Hey keep this thread going! I just bought a new Alienware system, have setup multi partitions, and am now trying to drink up the nerve to install Ubuntu as a dual boot without hosing the original XP OS.
My goal is to learn linux well enuf so I never need MS again - I do not, nor will ever have, vista.
Obviously, one of the first things I will do with it is Xfractint. I played around with it a little a few years ago on Mandrake 8.1 but I was not impressed, maybe its better now ...
Come on in, the water's great! This Ubuntu is the very first Linux package that I've been impressed with, as a complete newbie. Slick installation, with a "try before you buy" feature. My only stumbling block was getting the Linux system connected to my ADSL supplier. My problem now is to understand how and where files are stored in the machine. I have Xfractint up and starting to run, but I can't yet set it up. Johnathan mentions sstools.ini, apparently just like the Win version. But I can't find it! I've found a folder, (if that's the right word), hidden under a rock, which contains pars and maps. However I don't yet know how to refer to them, or how to modify them when I find them. I've yet to discover where to put anything which isn't automatically assigned a location. Like where and how do I save Jim's FOTD's? This is fun, and it all started when I "hosed", (as you eloquently put it), my Windows Media Centre Edition machine. I was trying to use a Virtual Device for Xfractint when I made a misstep. Unfortunately, I was unable to fix the problem with my restore disks. I had forgotten that I'd had the motherboard changed,(under warranty), because the integral audio line input socket had a problem. My HP computer was now a Compaq, and it threw up my repair disks. I decided that I was not going to go through that Microsoft game of re-registering my computer and getting Windows re-installed. I was/am going to use Ubuntu It seems to have everything I could possibly need. I, too, installed Mandrake on an old computer, and ran Scott Boyd's xfractint package for a short while. I, too, was disappointed. I think the Linux community does itself a disservice by promulgating the OS as a means to use old computers. That works about as well as XP would work on a '286, and Linux gets a bad name. I've found that on a good computer it's fantastic, and I like The Gimp. Good luck, J of T! John W.
John Wilson wrote:
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 22:30 +0000, jackoftradez@comcast.net wrote:
Hey keep this thread going! I just bought a new Alienware system, have setup multi partitions, and am now trying to drink up the nerve to install Ubuntu as a dual boot without hosing the original XP OS.
My goal is to learn linux well enuf so I never need MS again - I do not, nor will ever have, vista.
Obviously, one of the first things I will do with it is Xfractint. I played around with it a little a few years ago on Mandrake 8.1 but I was not impressed, maybe its better now ...
Come on in, the water's great!
This Ubuntu is the very first Linux package that I've been impressed with, as a complete newbie. Slick installation, with a "try before you buy" feature. My only stumbling block was getting the Linux system connected to my ADSL supplier.
My problem now is to understand how and where files are stored in the machine. I have Xfractint up and starting to run, but I can't yet set it up.
Johnathan mentions sstools.ini, apparently just like the Win version. But I can't find it! I've found a folder, (if that's the right word), hidden under a rock, which contains pars and maps. However I don't yet know how to refer to them, or how to modify them when I find them. I've yet to discover where to put anything which isn't automatically assigned a location. Like where and how do I save Jim's FOTD's?
This is fun, and it all started when I "hosed", (as you eloquently put it), my Windows Media Centre Edition machine.
I was trying to use a Virtual Device for Xfractint when I made a misstep. Unfortunately, I was unable to fix the problem with my restore disks. I had forgotten that I'd had the motherboard changed,(under warranty), because the integral audio line input socket had a problem. My HP computer was now a Compaq, and it threw up my repair disks.
I decided that I was not going to go through that Microsoft game of re-registering my computer and getting Windows re-installed. I was/am going to use Ubuntu It seems to have everything I could possibly need.
I, too, installed Mandrake on an old computer, and ran Scott Boyd's xfractint package for a short while. I, too, was disappointed. I think the Linux community does itself a disservice by promulgating the OS as a means to use old computers. That works about as well as XP would work on a '286, and Linux gets a bad name. I've found that on a good computer it's fantastic, and I like The Gimp.
Good luck, J of T!
John W.
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I too have just move to Ubuntu. Any help will also be used by me. Doug Stewart
John,
My problem now is to understand how and where files are stored in the machine. I have Xfractint up and starting to run, but I can't yet set it up.
Johnathan mentions sstools.ini, apparently just like the Win version. But I can't find it! I've found a folder, (if that's the right word), hidden under a rock, which contains pars and maps. However I don't yet know how to refer to them, or how to modify them when I find them. I've yet to discover where to put anything which isn't automatically assigned a location. Like where and how do I save Jim's FOTD's?
The map files are in /usr/share/xfractint for the version you are using. The latest developer's version installs the sstools.ini file in /usr/share/xfractint and the map, par, frm, ... files in the applicable subdirectories. The developer's version has no trouble finding any of the files. There are some tweaks I need to make to the Makefile so that the install works correctly. They'll be in the next patch (probably in the next week or so). You should be able to put the FOTD par files in your home directory. After you press shift-2 to view the current par file, press shift-6 to select a different file. Then you can press shift-6 again to see the default directory (your home directory).
I was trying to use a Virtual Device for Xfractint when I made a misstep. Unfortunately, I was unable to fix the problem with my restore disks. I had forgotten that I'd had the motherboard changed,(under warranty), because the integral audio line input socket had a problem. My HP computer was now a Compaq, and it threw up my repair disks.
I am running a 64-bit version of Kubuntu under vmware. This slows things down a bit, but allows me to develop and test xfractint and fractint at the same time when I need to. Jonathan
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