WINE emulating the whole windows OS? Nope I have not heard of it. But you can consider using VMWARE. That is the one program that can emulate the entire windows OS on linux. However you may need to pay for the licence though.Originally posted by Centaur:Hello gurus,
Just need to check out whether any distribution of Linux can read from NTFS 5 partitions? Heard that there's an application called WINE that can emulate Windows and you can even install window operating system into it. Is it true and how is the performance?
Just something else to add. Wine can be used to run certain windows programs not the whole OS. So far I managed to run Notepad, Quicktime successfully. However, I still have some problems with programs requiring DirectX.Originally posted by Centaur:Hello gurus,
Just need to check out whether any distribution of Linux can read from NTFS 5 partitions? Heard that there's an application called WINE that can emulate Windows and you can even install window operating system into it. Is it true and how is the performance?
Well depends on what you use the OS for. If you are using it for gaming, there are not many titles available. If for Word Processing and such, Linux can still do the job. There are excellent programs like AbiWord, Openoffice etc.Originally posted by Centaur:Thanks. I used to think that Windows XP is very stable until I installed it in my PC. Just hope that Linux can replace Windows as the desktop OS and life will be less frustrating and miserable.
You are an IRIX user? Then don't worry too much. Linux should be easy for you to pick up. I am currently using RedHat 7.3. I have experimented with Suse, Mandrake and ASPLinux. Apart from Linux, I tampered with FreeBSD. So far, I think I like Redhat most. One can safely say that most of the linux programs online can work in the Redhat distro and RPMS rarely become an issue unlike Suse linux{No offense to Suse users, just that you know RPMs can be a pain in the neck at timesOriginally posted by Centaur:Hi Goblin,
I'm considering which one to use. Which one are you using or which do you think is better? redhat, mandrake, suse, debian, slackware, etc.
I've got some experience with IRIX (a variant of UNIX) and Linux shouldn't pose too much of a difficulty for me to pick up. Just the part about compiling kernels, tar xvf, make, make install is quite confusing at first.
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RPM is an acroynm for Redhat Packaging Manager. It is analogous to the *.exe installer files in windows.Originally posted by Centaur:What's RPMS? revolutions per minute? What's it used for? for installing and removing software?
Nope, but my senior does. I am more of a linux user and now I am playing with freebsd. My workplace has an Indigo systemOriginally posted by Centaur:Regarding your earlier comment, do you have experience with IRIX too? I've used Indigo, O2 system before. I can say that they're one of the most difficult systems I've came across.
You have to go through the same thing as linux. But it is quite fast. Anyway there are lots of online forums that addresses to this issue
Just adding a new harddisk for example required the modification of fstab(file system table) to add a 'mount' inside. Then you have the specify the dks0d1s0. Then have to add character and data link to the harddisk and whatever crap but before that, you have to go thru' the fx. (repartitioning)
Well Perl installation is by default in Redhat packages. You just have to tell the installation to install MySQL for you. Even if you want to add it later, the RPM manangers will add in the package very easily for you. Not tedious at all unless you want to do the good old tar ball way
I tried installing programs like MySQL and Perl module inside. They prompt you with whatever library error, library not found and some internal errors. They also create a don't-know-what 10MB core dump for you to analyse.
Don't worry too much
Super cheem. Hope Linux isn't that tedious.
You can install from ISO images I think. But I am not too sure how. You have to read the documentations. You do not need to buy the personal or professional versions. The downloaded versions has more than enough applications. There is Samba, Apache and MySQL, Perl etc in it.Originally posted by Centaur:You've downloaded them from their website? I've heard that ISO images needs to be burn into a CD before it can be use. I've browsed the RedHat website and found that there're 2 versions of it. (personel, professional) There's an extra server application CD with the professional package. What's the difference? Both of them can run Samba, right? Besides providing file and print services, does Samba help to make Linux behave like a domain server? (just like windows 2000 server)
My Linux-Mandrake can read/write NTFS after mounting, w/o the need of recompiling.Originally posted by greengoblin:If you wish to access your NTFS Hdd, you will need to recompile your kernel. However, you will only be able to read but not write.
If you wish to do a simple way out, make your windows parition FAT32.