I’ve chosen Computer Science instead of Music, so I need a cheap but useful comouter for programming (an older OS would do (no older than Windows 98)). It requires serial ports and some USBs would not hurt either. It would also need to be able to run 2 pertitions because I will require Linux too.

Thx!
Laptop prefered.

I want to listen to the same music at the same time with 2 computers in my LAN. One is running Linux, the other one Windows XP. So I thought it would be the best to set up server on the linux pc and setup a stream to the other pc. But I don’t know how to do that. What application do you recommend me? Should be easy (fast) to configure. Is this possible without a delay, anyway?

I’m thinking in migrate from Windows to a Linux operating system… But the main problem to do it is the Linux applications, which I don’t know very well. Could you tell/recommend some applications to me?
I need a good image editor (like Corel Draw and Photoshop in Windows);
A good media player (like Windows Media Player);
A good download manager (like Free Download Manager in Windows);
A nice media converter (like FormatFactory for Windows);
And a nice sound editor.
Those kind of applications are the ones which I use more, so, I need them.
And could you tell me what is your favorite Linux distro too?
Thanks, and sorry for spelling and grammar mistakes.
* With download manager, I meant an application for download common files from web, like music and other suff.

Howdy

I have found a laptop for £200 that gives more than some other laptops i’ve been interested in which cost £80 more and I think this is because the £200 laptop has linux for its o/s.

I’ve never used linux. How easy would be it be to write reports (I’m a student and going to sea in march, gotta right reports at sea too >.>) and have them compatible with microsoft word.

What about the music on my pc that i would wish to transfer, mp3′s and media player tunes?

Or should I pay a bit extra for an o/s i’m familiar with.

Oh the laptop is this one:

Acer Aspire One A150-Aw
The extension won’t be .doc with linux, is the extension compatabile or easily changeable, so the document can be opened on word?
The issue is compatability with microsoft o/s that the college uses. I’ll happily write a report on the given word processor but i can’t be having to download programs at the college (not allowed) so I can open up my report to edit/print off without character/font changes or issues like that.

I install suse linux Ent.server to backup my file from the corrupted windows system.

But know I got problems with working with it, specially how to play my music file in this operating system which have gnome terminal
please help me right now

I’ve been considering getting Linux for a long time now, I and I need some information first. First of all, how is it different? Second, though I don’t really have any movies or pictures or music on my computer yet, I think the Windows applications like Pivot and Game Maker could get wiped off when I switch to Linux. Can I get them back? That’s all I can think of, but if you have any other info, do tell.

Linux is open-source, right? Why not have people/communities doing movies for free, writing books for free, singing music for free? Of course there are areas where this concept of "openess" can not be applied, because we need to earn a living somehow.

I heard that there is many Linux OS’s out there but I want a free one which I can use on my x64 i7 System. I do alot of video editing and converting. Also do music DJing and play games on my system.

I’m trying to find a sight for downloading music. A list of musts
1 Must be legal (I do not mind paying for what I get)
2 Can’t be monopolized buy only using MS Windows based software (Like Yahoo who by the way runs FreeBSD a lot)
3 Have song from 1970-2006 (Not just today’s songs)

It would be great if it was just a web based pay and down load. For the life of me I can not understand why every sight requires you to download and install there software. This could me written in java, flash or in plane HTML.

what I mean of entertainment is that you can play videos (specifically .avi, .ogg and .mkv), music, and well if possible PC games…

I am looking to switch my computer from running XP to just about anything else. I have heard about good open source apps for linux based PCs. I use my computer for music, word processing, internet and not much else. Could i still use XP on my computer when necessary?

Ideas, anyone?

Thanks!

how to make a 3rd partition to be visible by both Linux and windows operating systems???
i have a hard disc of 80 gb on my laptop i made 3 partitions i created the first for my windows XP second for my Linux mandriva and third for my movies and music etc…

i want to make the third partition visible on both operating systems
in terminal on Linux its already visible, when i enter " ls /mount/f " it shows all the files that i was using on my windows, with help of a friend but he doesn’t know how to make visible on the "computer" part in Linux.
i reformatted the third partition from NTFS to FAT32 as i have read in multiple forums but now how do i activate it ?
the partition where windows is installed is C: or sda1, Linux is installed on the D: or sda5 and the partition that i want both operating systems to use is on E: or sda6

if anyone can give me any advise i would be very grateful !
yours Amir

I was considering downloading Linux, but I wasn’t sure if the applications I had on my computer would still work. Also, I have a lot of music on this computer, so, will I still be able to access that?