Ok, I've looked through WINE, and yes, it seems it can support my requirements. :D
Second, I found a player which i've tested on Windows, and it seems to handle everything I throw at it, which is far better then having four media players for their own extensions; (called VLC Media Player, you can grab it here; http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ ) Looking deeper into the rabbit hole that makes up Linux, i've encountered many problems trying to understand the new file formats, I would be most thankful if someone could tell me what to do with a .bin file, for instance, or point me towards a tutorial. Another problem is that I've run accross accounts which say a new version is released every year or so, which requires a complete deinstall of the OS and installation of the new one. As a programmer, I create applications that can get a little...out of control, Windows falls over and dies with some of them, is Linux much more sturdy? (Reading about the virtual desktops and sandboxing applications, etc) Now, back to XP-Linux file transfer, I take it I cannot take a file from XP (IE, the My Documents folder) and drop it in Linux? or can I? (to take an example, I would download an app like WINE through XP and send it to the laptop). If that final tranfer question can be ironed out, I do beleive the lInux community will have another member. :) -Dante On Nov 3, 11:59 am, "Graham Todd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
