On 10/9/06, Michael Hopcroft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Bryce Verdier wrote:
> Is there something specific your trying to do? Because maybe some of
> the people on the list might be able to help you out.
Well, I'm trying to escape the Microsoft Menace before Vista arrives and
the WGA program raises total havoc with legitimate XP systems. However,
I have five distinct problems:
1. My major hobby (anime fandom) requires a great deal of DVD burning
and duplication. There are certain Windows programs I have come to
depend on that have no known Linux analogue. I probably shouldn't
specify which programs here -- you never know who is listening.
I think these programs can all run under wine.
http://www.winehq.com/
2. I have a Canon Pixma MP150 Printer/Scanner/Copier. I do not know
whether there is a driver for it, and it is a USB device which
complicates matters a bit.
No driver yet :-(
http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Canon-PIXMA_MP150
3. There are some Windows games that I do not wish to give up. There are
obscure wargame and sports simulation titles, and while they are not
graphically intensive on the level of, say, the EA Sports Madden series
their file structures are built heavily around the Windows OS (so that,
for example, it looks for a Windows address for scenarios, saves,
seasons, etc.). I am wondering whether, even with emulators, the file
structure would defeat any effort to play these games.
Either the previously mentioned wine, or cegega
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedega
4. I am a frequent customer of DriveThruRPG.com, which watermarks PDF
files to mark legitimate ownership. Would these watermarks pose a
problem for Linux PDF readers, and are there Linux software packages
that support cut-and-paste from PDFs to other software.
I remember doing copy/paste from a linux pdf reader at some point, but
don't remember what app it was.
5. Even though I have 850GB total storage between two internal and one
external hard drive, I am still uncertain of how I can migrate my data
between OSs.
The linux ext2 filesystem can be read from windows (with an add on
program), and the windows ntfs filesystem can be read from linux.
Those, in a nutshell, are my difficulties. Other than that, I have what
I need -- my disks of Ubuntu Linux 6.0.6, a cable broadband connection,
and everything that goes with it. Asdie from perhaps having another
250GB external drive to back up my C: drive onto, which I will not be
able to get my hands on for a while, I have what would be required for a
transition; except the expertise.
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