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Am a newbee to Linux and am trying to evaluate various distros to see how they fit my needs. For this purpose I now have six trial Linux partitions on the same machine. My other criterions to replace XP as my main system have been passed by all the distros, but remains the last one: to be able to handle Lotus wk4-files. That is where I have my history. First tried installing Lotus 123 from

This is pesky; cant get on net yet with brandy new ubuntu, as cannot install modem and no clear directions in ubuntu 10.04 need wine: cannot find how to get: all net pages assume youve got modem up and running ie advising just use "downloader" or "package source"....what about no modem yet in linux? (looking here thru windows)... impossible Need to download wine for Ubuntu

any patient person out there can explain to a total noob how to use a windows usb device, with a windows driver, via wine? according to http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=4154&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=usb, i have to make some sort of entry in the "dosdevices" directory from your serial port to the com port. i think. no, that's just for modems.

I've downloaded Wine 1.1.7 and unzipped it onto my desktop. I've printed out the readme file and have followed the quick start by running ./tools/wineinstall (I'm doing all this by mouseclicks - no terminal). A dialog box flashes and then nothing happens. I can't stop this dialog box long enough to see if there is an error msg, so I don't know what is happening, except I

The R FAQ is very helpful about installing R on various Linuxes, but doesn't seem to discuss the advantages of one distribution over another. I am new to Linux (though not to Unix!), and would appreciate some guidance from those with experience. I plan to set up a headless Linux x86 server for the sole purpose of running 64-bit R. Are there reasons to prefer some Linux distributions over

Hello there, complete off-topic, sorry about this, but my former idea was to install a CentOS on an old mac mini (PPC!). Disappointed to see that PowerPC is not a supported architecture and that non ARM or Intel architecture are not managed by recent distros.. :-(. Searching the web, I see very few possibilities to install a recent (I need gnome2) GNU/Linux distro on such hardware. I gave Linux

This is my question. I want to install some mods to my games, but the program files folder in wine looks empty (only IE) Where are the game folders?? Thanks.

i think that if a distribution with MS WOS XP and 7 look and feel based on Gnome and Ubuntu or debian is released a lot of people would migrate. People is comdortable with what they know, even Gnome is easy to use, they like Control panel, Documents and Settings and Start vuttons from MS WOS. If program Icons should be in desktops, an start button with a control panel, My documents and so one,

In a discussion with one of the main answer people, of whose time I am greatly appreciative, it was suggested that some of my problem (or solution) may be to run Samba on a distro that's better suited for it. Problem is, I don't have the time nor the inclination to download a bunch of distros just to install, test, fdisk, repeat. So I ask. what is a recommended recent distro that works

hello i trying to install wine on centos 6 but the yum install wine command not work yum install wine Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile Setting up Install Process No package wine available. Error: Nothing to do where can i download the rpm as on the download page nothing to download

I recently got a mini 1000 with linux OS. I have always used windows and didn't know what OS was on the notebook until I started playing with it. I am slowly learning about linux, (very slowly). I want to download a windows program called " brain fitness Pro" onto my Mini. It appears that I need to download Wine first to accomplish this. I believe that the mini I have uses Gnome for

I have set up the configurations and profiles for some of my programs so that I can use them across distros, and easily configure new installations with all my old settings. For instance, if I use Firefox in Fedora, add some bookmarks, then go to suse or Mandriva the new bookmarks are there, as is history, etc. Same for Thunderbird. To do this I copy the relevant folder from /home/user to my

Good day to you wine users I've following problem, I've a cheap joystick which is recognized as DragonRise Inc. - however many of them are I guess. It's some china stuff which is each time labeled different but almost always the same device (or so I've heard). Everything works great except the joystick is recognized as being 7 axis one - I really dont know why it does this. It

On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Jeremy Hoel <jthoel at gmail.com> wrote: > Besides the other linux distros mentioned, you have another more retro type > choice > > http://www.macworld.com/article/2363177/macs/turn-your-g4-era-mac-into-a-next-gen-amiga.html > You know, I do have a G4 mini somewhere... I do wonder if it also works under emulation (KVM AFAIK does support

Problem with installation. tar xzvf wine-20040914.tar.gz this created a directory ~/wine-20040914 su # ./configure this generated a longwinded error message to the effect that it is unable to guess my system type. # ./configure --build=i686 this got the configuration going and ended with the message: "Configur finished. Do 'make depend && make' to compile wine".

my thought is that the people that are complaining that the buttons and look of programs running in wine are the same ones that allow Microsoft to keep working on their GUI and not focusing on the kernel of their operating systems (anyone remember the talking paperclip in MSoffice?) They're worried about how pretty everythign is and not how it performs. hence the reason that Vista and xp never

In version 1.3.24 and previous versions, sound was hit-and-miss on my system unless I had ESD enabled. Now that ESD has been removed, so has any reliable sound. When using the ALSA driver, some sounds work for a while, after which all sound completely stops. Enabling ESD and using the PulseAudio eSound plugin made all sounds work perfectly. That is now gone with version 1.3.25, and sound is now

I tried to install Wine 1.0 from source and it gives me this error. I've posted the "config.log" file here: http://pastebin.org/52277 Code: [marc at unicron wine-1.0]$ sudo ./configure checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for gcc... gcc -m32 checking for C

Hi i need help, i dont know how i do to install wine in my debian wheezy, there is no more deb file for wine 1.2.xx - 1.3xx, why??? and when i want to compile request me some x86free lib or something like that i dont stand nothing, can some one help me pls. Why there is deb file for ubuntu but not for Debian???, pretty unfair. the last wine.deb is for the version 1.1.42 why you dont continue

After a bad experience trying to get even the simplest Rails application running at Lunarpages, I''m moving to Slicehost. Does anyone have an opinion as to which of their Linux distros to use for a fairly high-traffic Rails site? They offer CentOS, Debian 5, Fedora (10 to 12), Gentoo, Red Hat EL 5, and Ubuntu (8 and 9). While we''re on the subject, does anyone have any opinions as