2008/11/2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hey, > Be warned, multiple questions ahead;
That's OK, we're ready to help... > I'm in a bit of a situation; I'm a programmer and most of my work is > done tested through games (AI programmer, you see). For this, on XP, I > have half-life 2 orange box with Garry's Mod, would that run under > WINE and gOS? Furthermore, would WINE support the installation of a > wireless network software program? (.msi, which is why I haven't moved > to Linux before) Lets start at the beginning. gOS and Debian and Red Hat (for example) are all Linux distributions, which means they all have the kernel created by Linus Torvalds and his colleagues throughout the Linux community, plus applications which the team that put the whole distribution together, think appropriate. So the correct thing to do is to ask the developers (which you're doing here, although I'm not a developer). Codeweavers have developed WINE as an API layer which SHOULD eventually be equivalent to an application that can run all Windows programs. In the meantime, look up: http://appdb.winehq.org/ to find which applications WINE runs out of the box. It MAY do what you want, but you are probably better off looking for greater Windows compatibility with the Crossover group of applications (especially Crossover Games). However, these are not covered by the same licence as WINE and so are not totally free (not in cost, nor in freedom); this may be something you might want to consider. > > Secondly, I also have a laptop (under repair) that I hope to convert > into a sort of creative programming and writing system, (also a > writer) would gOS be helpful there? gOS is good for laptops, netbooks, and desktop machines. It uses the Ubuntu system, which in turn is built upon Debian, so you should have no difficulty in accessing the wide range of programs that are available. However, you might find the GNOME desktop (which is at the basis of the gOS interface) more than a little trying: coming from Windows, you might find the KDE desktop more to your liking. Look up available distributions (distros) at: http://www.distrowatch.com and see what they have to offer. Put it this way, OpenOffice is an equivalent suite of applications to Ms Office, is totally free, and is more than up to the tasks thrown at it by a professional writer. If you want only a word processor, and not a Presentation, Spreadsheet and graphing capabilities, look at Abiword. Any distribution capable of running this will be suitable for you. http://www.openoffice.org http://www.abiword.org > > Thirdly; I do a lot of movie work, as a hobby, and I'm hoping the gOS > would let me play back these movies (normally saved under .flv > and .avi extensions.) I've heard that Linux does not natively support > video's (or, indeed, music) so are there any workarounds? First of all, you will have no problem with .avi files, as there are even dedicated players for this. Most common codecs are supported although many of these may be proprietary and therefore not easily supported; I'm afraid I don't know about .flv files - perhaps here Googling around is your best bet. > > and Fourthly; as a large number of tools do seem to be google gadgets, > can these gadgets run offline for laptop useage? Yes I believe so, but I don't know for sure. > finally, Fifthly, can a Linux computer transfer and accept files from > a USB connection to a XP computer? Yes, but whether they can be read depends on the application at both ends :-) Linux is not Windows, but a much more powerful and flexible operating system, and you have to be prepared to learn about it. You can, for instance communicate with Windows computers using Samba..... > Sorry for all the questions, guys and gals; Don't be sorry: that's what the Linux community is all about, Dante. We share what we know with each other. -- Graham Todd --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gOS Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/goslinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
