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Hi guys,

Finally, after so many failed attempts (gave up in past)I managed to
install Ubuntu 5.10 on my Inspiron 6000 (dula boot w/ winxp pro).
Wanna know the following:

1. What kind of program should I install so that I don't miss
windows?
2. Any upgrade that you guys recommend?
3. Any third party software which would be really good?

Or anyother setting suggestion which would be good for a novice linux
user migrating from winxp.....

Thanx in advance,
bye.

On 1 Oct 2005 15:51:47 -0700, sherry wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Finally, after so many failed attempts (gave up in past)I managed to
> install Ubuntu 5.10 on my Inspiron 6000 (dula boot w/ winxp pro).
> Wanna know the following:
>
> 1. What kind of program should I install so that I don't miss
> windows?

And we know what programs you used how?

> 2. Any upgrade that you guys recommend?

Not me I use Mandriva linux.

> 3. Any third party software which would be really good?

Get a little dated but
http://linuxshop.ru/linuxbegin/win-l...en/table.shtml

another resource
http://www.grokdoc.net/index.php/App...rossover_Chart


> Or anyother setting suggestion which would be good for a novice linux
> user migrating from winxp.....


Other people's Free advice:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
http://livinginternet.com/u/ua.htm <--- Advanced Usenet Usage
http://tgos.org/newbie/rules.html <--- Good Usenet etiquette

and do bookmark this very large, Frequently Asked Questions (faq) search engine
http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search
key words(s) in the first box
*linux* in Newsgroup box. You need to use the two
asterisks around linux, pick English


bash script introduction documentation
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/index.html


bash script advanced documentation
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html


Other program sources
http://freshmeat.net/
http://sourceforge.net/index.php

On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 00:51:47 +0200, sherry <your_prince20@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> Finally, after so many failed attempts (gave up in past)I managed to
> install Ubuntu 5.10 on my Inspiron 6000 (dula boot w/ winxp pro).
> Wanna know the following:
>
> 1. What kind of program should I install so that I don't miss
> windows?

What does it take to "miss windows"? Will you feel sorely let down
if Linux does not do...
advanced image processing? look at the gimp
web browsing? Try FireFox.
word processing? Try openoffice.org.
etc.
What would you miss?

> 2. Any upgrade that you guys recommend?

I run a program every night that automatically downloads and updates
any released update to any of software packages I have installed.
However, I am not sure that program works with Ubuntu. My program is
called "yum". Does Ubuntu have "apt-get" (or something similar)?
Perhaps it can do it, or perhaps yum can handle that style of packages.

> 3. Any third party software which would be really good?

The Gimp is really good for its purpose.

Hello everybody, what is the first thing that comes to *your* mind?

> Or anyother setting suggestion which would be good for a novice linux
> user migrating from winxp.....

In principle, most ditributors try to guess exactly what their users
want, and include that in the distribution. I have seen that Ubuntu
has climbed fast on the popularity scale, so I guess they must have
been good at doing just that.

But if you have any special needs or tastes that not everybody shares
you could tell about it, and see what we come up with.

Hello guys, what do you use Linux for?
Where do you download music? Especially, legal sources? Cool sources?
Do you play interactive games?
Watch videos?
Programming?
Earning a damned living?

-Enrique

sherry <your_prince20@hotmail.com> wrote:

> 1. What kind of program should I install so that I don't miss
> windows?

A marksmanship program? ;->

In article <op.sxzrevnvnxtvbs@apeiron.home.lan>, enrio@online.no
(Enrique Perez-Terron) writes:

> On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 00:51:47 +0200, sherry <your_prince20@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> Finally, after so many failed attempts (gave up in past)I managed to
>> install Ubuntu 5.10 on my Inspiron 6000 (dula boot w/ winxp pro).
>> Wanna know the following:
>>
>> 1. What kind of program should I install so that I don't miss
>> windows?
>
> What does it take to "miss windows"? Will you feel sorely let down
> if Linux does not do...
> advanced image processing? look at the gimp
> web browsing? Try FireFox.
> word processing? Try openoffice.org.
> etc.
> What would you miss?

Blue screens of death
DLL hell
Constant rebooting/reformatting/re-installing
Security holes

Yes, life is boring with Linux. It just works.

>> 3. Any third party software which would be really good?
>
> The Gimp is really good for its purpose.
>
> Hello everybody, what is the first thing that comes to *your* mind?

mplayer - it plays any sound or video file you throw at it.

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> mplayer - it plays any sound or video file you throw at it.

Only if you install a fully equipped one. The version included with SuSE,
for example, is deliberately crippled to avoid the use of libdvdcss or MPEG
formats. Fortunately, the ones you cn download from the packman.de websites
are compiled for SuSE and include a list of the things they can't publish
there (such as the DVD decryption libraries) and direct hints on what
they're called and thus, how to get them.