Get addicted to LINUX by trying different LINUX Live-CD’s. They mainly come with an easy-to-use installer script, just in case you want to boot from HD or USB-Stick. Enough advice for one single question. What about caring for your thread? You don’t wanna be a troll suspect, don’t you?
Oh yes it is a core 2 duo I must have missed typed.
What is Wiine ? Is It an operating system ? Can you give me a link to it ? Thank you.
Wine is a shell for operating windows programs inside of linux.
You might try, I don’t know, google?
Its easiest to think of wine like a windows emulator (like an atari or snes video game console emulator) but as you can see from the arguments in previous posts thats not technically correct. Wine is extremely easy to install and setup and allows you to run windows programs under different windows environments such as windows95/98/ME/2000/XP (whatever will best trick the program into running). I’ve had some programs and games run flawlessly and others wont even start. In general if I really want to try to run a windows program under Linux I will try in this order:
Wine http://www.winehq.org/
Cedega http://www.transgaming.com/
CrossOver http://www.codeweavers.com/
As someone else has mentioned the best thing is to just find a Linux program that does what you want, you may be surprised of whats out there :eek:
Heres a couple of links that may help you find Linux programs quickly:
KDE based apps http://www.kde-apps.org/
Gnome based apps http://www.gnomefiles.org/
Gnome and KDE are different graphical environments (although very similar). Both KDE and Gnome can run each others programs so starting off you don’t really need to know the difference if you find a program that you like. If you interested heres a link to all of the Linux related projects and sites that I find useful:
Thanks, got wine installed…even got bryce to work in it! A little buggy but it works for some of the programs…unfortunatly none of my dvd players will work in it thought…so still no dvds. Thanks a lot.
for dvd’s use vlc, and not trough wine… 
Why would you need WINE for DVDs? Just enable all repositories and look for “libdvdread3” which will allow all video players to read DVDs.
By the way, why do you need Bryce if you have Blender?
Where would I enable all repositories at ??
System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager
Type in your password and go to Settings -> Repositories and enable them all.
Also if the DVD’s are commercial they may have CSS encryption and you will have to install libdvdcss2 to decrypt them. You can get it here (be warned it may not be legal in certain countries) http://www.medibuntu.org/
Also try frozen-bubble and the Battle for Wesnoth. Their two of my favorite games and both in the package manager.
The package I told him about includes libdvdcss2 in it. Easier to install over the repositories.
Ok, you don’t like windows? I have found that bashing a big hole through the wall lets in the sunlight. It’s cool, you don’t have to wash it and you don’t need to hire a carpenter to do the framing. When it get cold out, just hang a blanket or a tarp up. (I apologize for being weird but I have snuck into my boss’s sugar pills and the title of the thread sort of intrigued me)
I have asked experts in gibberish, European languages and Asian languages, even some experts in ancient languages of old that nobody remembers, to read your text and explain it to me.
Nobody has yet translated something coherent.
ok i completed my move to linux completely. And one word of advice unless u have 6 gigs of ram DONT go 64 bit, its very glitchy and many things dont work with it. Itll just make ur life very complicted. Go the 32 bit route, and that will most likely solve your memory alocation.
The only thing from the windows world that I really need to run under Linux is “Flash CS3”.
As soon as someone gets that to run properly under wine, I’ll have no reason to boot windows again for a long, long time.
BTW, when I can expect that to happen?
you cant expect that to happen any time soon because, you need proper installation of .NET framework for anything above cs2, which isnt possible to install because it needs windows kernel drivers and such which wine will never have. Thats something trade marked and cant be emulated. But i think there are older versions of flash which do work under wine emulation. Your other option is to either dual boot or emulate windows xp using innoteks VirtualBox.
you need proper installation of .NET framework
I think that’s when the mono project comes into play…
Actually, WINE group has reverse engineered stuff from Windows pretty decently so far. Like said in other thread, WINE Is Not an Emulator, and all the team needs to do is understand exactly what .NET does, and redirect all its call to some other Linux-compatible code that does the same. Which is Mono’s job.
I never said never i just said not soon. And it wont be soon lol, because u need to reverse engineer the kernel stuff, and if ppl could really do that than windows will become open source just like linux 