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DAMN NON-MS APPLICATIONS!!
voidmain:
quote:Originally posted by spinningheel4242:
Also, I am not asking direct questions but I am...I am explaining problems I am finding with non-MS apps and hoping that someone will offer suggestions and/or alternatives.
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Well then you should have written your sentences in the form of a question instead of what appeared to be a slam.
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Personally, I won't be giving up windoze because of my games and other related junk. But, I do want to find a suitable, everyday replacement for web browsing, word processing, etc...
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Perfectly natural transgression.
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As being a newbie, I need help with what linux distro would be the best and easiest to set up. Also, I will probably get help on how to fix any problems that crop up with a new linux install.
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If you want help from me, I would suggest RedHat 8.0 as this is my current distro of choice (I've been running Linux for 10 years).
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I have resigned to the fact that my hundreds of older MS Word documents need MS Word to properly display them. But, all of my new documents are going to be OpenOffice or some alternative....the only problem is trying to convert the wife :(
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That was easy for me. Stuck the Linux CD in and installed over Windows. Until she can figure out how to install Windows she'll be using Linux. Haven't heard any complaints out of my wife *or* my kids. Actually I've heard a lot of complaints, but they weren't computer related.
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I would also appreciate anyone that can direct me to a thread/site that can easily and susinctly partition my harddrive, using partition magic 8.
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There are several threads on this, you can do a search at the top of this page, but basically the only thing you'll want to use Partition Magic for is to shrink the size of your Windows partition to make enough free space on the disk to install Linux. Use Linux to create the Linux partitions. Normally you'll want to do a "custom" install so that it will not wipe out your entire drive and install Linux, but give you a chance to create partitions in the free space that you have created with Partition Magic. I would suggest at least 5GB of free space for Linux. In fact I would strongly suggest more than that if you can afford it. 10GB or more would be much better as you want room to work, especially if you are going to be doing some multimedia work/editing.
When you boot and do a "custom" install if you are using RedHat you will be prompted to use either "Disk Druid" or "fdisk" to create your Linux partitions, select "Disk Druid" and follow these instructions.
I would suggest making a 256MB or 512MB "swap" (swap partition type) partition depending on how much RAM you have, a 50MB "/boot" partition (ext3 partition type), and use the rest of the free space to make a "/" (root) partition (ext3 partition type). I also usually give my Windows partition a mount point at this time so I don't have to add it after the installation. Make sure in the boot loader configuration you have both RedHat and Windows selected so you can dual boot.
Here's the full installation guide
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Also, some previous posts commented that linux had better video editing and cd burning software than windoze....please tell me what distro you were running because Lycoris's Desktop/LX wasn't a success.
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If you install RedHat 8.0 I will give you instructions on how to install some really good multimedia software automatically off the net (assuming all your network hardware is compatible and you have network access).
Good luck!
[ November 02, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]
dbl221:
The telephone never had any "killer-app" but it still made it...its kiiller-app is and was communication.
The killer-app is open source, you just can't see it yet. Just like the early telephone users.
Oh and M$ OS's and products are crap. If they were any good I wouldn't have a job "supporting" them.
spinningheel4242:
Ok, my questions were not in the form of a question for a point....I was addressing another post and I am also stating a point. Thus, I negate the need to frame my statement in a question. Second, I have installed Redhat 8 once and nothing but problems. I have a dell xps600 with 840mb ram, pioneer dvd, lg 40x re-writer, 32 gig hd, turtle beach montego soundcard, diamond viper 32mb video card. As per my experience, redhat didn't work correctly nor could I figure out how to correct the problem (could play sound...couldn't detect sound card).
I guess I could put the linux partition at the beginning of the harddrive and then the windoze...
I would like to use boot magic to boot between OS's though...is that possible or should I use grub or whatever?
Spin
voidmain:
There are several Turtle Beach audio cards on RedHat's compatibility list, Montego not being one of them. In fact I found an older document that states specifically that the Montego is unsupported. I find no mention of that card in the kernel source (used on all distros) but there may have been an added module or maybe it can use one of the other drivers. Maybe someone else on this board has experience with that card, I don't.
I would check every piece of equipment that you have with RedHat's compatibility list (they have a nice database to search). Figure out where your potential issues are, sound being one of them. Use google to find out as much as you can regarding non-compatible equipment to see if there are any workarounds. The fact that you said it worked in another distro is promising as that would indicate there is a sound driver for it and it could be added to RedHat.
I would not move Windows. Leave it at the beginning of the drive and just shrink it with Parition magic (move the end of the partition to the left until you have enough free space at the end of the drive). Install Linux at the end.
You can use other boot loaders to boot Linux but you will at least have to install Lilo on the partition boot sector instead of the master boot record (MBR). But I really don't know why you would want to do that. Both GRUB and LILO work great.
[ November 02, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]
spinningheel4242:
Excellent,
Thanks for the input...now that is what I was looking for.
Also, is there another Linux distro that I should try or is Redhat going to be the best??
Cheers
Spin
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