Floris Bruynooghe wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 02:21:04PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I am interested in replacing a very frustrating Windows ME system. >> All the info I find states that Linux can do any thing and even more >> than MS. My most major concern is, will it work with current files I
In my opinion, you should search for a nearby LUG and get in touch with the members who are already using a Linux distro. Or even better Debian. Should be able to find a LUG nearby from http://lugww.counter.li.org/ > Note however that MPlayer and OpenOffice.org are not yet available in > Debian stable (woody). OpenOffice.org will be in the next release I > guess but I'm not so sure about MPlayer, it might be necessary to > compile some things from source -- not difficult of course :). Unofficial debs for woody are available from # for MPlayer deb http://marillat.free.fr/ stable main # for OpenOffice.org [apart from several other mirrors] deb http://www.openoffice.org.br/openoffice woody main contrib So, all that Yokomoto should have to do is add the above lines in /etc/apt/sources.list apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade > Anyway, don't expect to much problems, but also don't be scared from > the first message (good or bad) you will see. Sometimes (for > uncommon things, HW/SW) it might require some looking around. and there is a lot of help at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Giridhar -- Y Giridhar Appaji Nag Giridhar.Nag(@t)ubinetics[.]co.in Controversy is wasteful, but lays things out, shows where people stand, (or refuse to), is a necessary yardstick of opinion, and is, heavenly compared to the alternative of being a helpless silent passive tool of anybody loud and obnoxious who knows how to bark at some sheep. - Alfie Costa on debian-project an individual are not necessarily those of UbiNetics
