[Leaplist] Distro and LAN choices, this works for me!

[Robin (Bartow FL)]

> 
> Only four partitions?  Are you running on Mac hardware?
> 
> And, isn't it a probability that using a partition for storage in one OS
>  and for swap file in any other OS means that all stored data gets fully
> wiped out upon boot up of that Linux system?
> 
> Maybe I don't understand your partitioning table.
> 
> I also quit multi-booting long ago, so have no issues with that, nor,
> other problems that popped up.  Mepis Linux is the preferred distro, and
> any others that I will try out run in the Live CDrom, in my testing or
> learning of them.
> 
> If I ever decided to try to run some of my old retail boxed games,  I
> would run VMWare, or Wine, or DOSEMU, as required.
> 
> I do think I have everything I need in Mepis, to play FreeCraft,
> Monopoly (Atlantik), Risk, Simple Life, and others...
> 
> Linux is more advanced for games than I am competent to play at.


Bear in mind that people have different reasons for powering up a CPU. You obviously enjoy gaming. Mepis will work great for that. But... Mepis legalities... The fine print
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1. http://www.mepis.org/legal/privacy

Information Collection and Use
 MEPIS is the sole owner of information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to any outside parties, except as outlined in this policy.

(Boy, I feel safe already...yadda, yadda, yadda, are you still reading?)

Sharing
 We may employ third party companies to perform functions on our behalf. These functions may include order fulfillment, package delivery, marketing assistance, postal and e-mail delivery, customer service, data analysis, and credit processing. The third parties we contract for these purposes have limited access to your personal information and may not use it for other purposes.
As our business continues to evolve, we may acquire or sell business units or subsidiaries. Customer information is one of the business assets that would be transferred in these types of transactions.

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Did you notice the use of the word "may" above? 
How many different ways "may" someone interpret that word?
The term "marketing assistance"? ditto !!!
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http://www.mepis.org/licenses/mcwl
MEPIS COLLECTIVE WORK LICENSE
COPYRIGHT
Unless stated otherwise, MEPIS software packages are unique collective 
works under US copyright law.  Copyright (c) MEPIS LLC.  All rights 
reserved.
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It would appear that Mepis may not be distributed for use in a for profit venture without payment of a licensing fee. A differing point of view from the FSF ???

If what you do works for you, and you are still curious of my partition scheme, I will post a picture elsewhere to save much wording.

/robin