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i had nothing to download last night and stumbled across a local mirror for heron. so now i have hardy.
question is, for someone who doesnt know much about computers, would you reckon i should give it a try on my other system or should i just leave it?
i think my main concern is the fact that i keep hearing its hard to set up... along with the fact that i have no idea if my apps i run in windows will work in linux.

kinda open ended.
 
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you mean now you have Hardy (that's how most people know it).
it is really fun to try it. Hardy is in fact no different to learn than Windows. I mean, if you had your first PC experience on Linux, you would find M$ strange. You can get most apps (apart from stuff such as pastel and some commercial large scale stuff) to work in Linux or have an alternative.
 
If it is the dvd you downloaded, run it in windows and install it in wubi (it emulates Linux inside windows). that way you can try it. alternatively, write the dvd and boot in dos, then run as a live dvd. then you are running linux off the dvd and can see how it is, properly.
 
hxc87x said:
i had nothing to download last night and stumbled across a local mirror for heron. so now i have heron.
question is, for someone who doesnt know much about computers, would you reckon i should give it a try on my other system or should i just leave it?
i think my main concern is the fact that i keep hearing its hard to set up... along with the fact that i have no idea if my apps i run in windows will work in linux.

kinda open ended.
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Give it a try, if you have some spare drive space on your main pc it is really easy to set up a dual-booting system (if I recall correctly Hardy pretty much does it for you). If you are curious about any apps, post them and a description of what they do here, and chances are someone could inform you of an OSS alternative.
 
froot said:
you mean now you have Hardy (that's how most people know it).
it is really fun to try it. Hardy is in fact no different to learn than Windows. I mean, if you had your first PC experience on Linux, you would find M$ strange. You can get most apps (apart from stuff such as pastel and some commercial large scale stuff) to work in Linux or have an alternative.
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ok, i'll change it to hardy (odd names anyway...)
what you're saying makes sense... never actually looked at it that way.
and is there freeware for programs to watch movies and listen to music for linux? like VLC or winamp etc
im capped atm so i cant really check =)

i downloaded an image file... not sure what to do with this. do i mount it and then try copy it in nero or what?
 
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hxc87x said:
ok, i'll change it to hardy (odd names anyway...)
what you're saying makes sense... never actually looked at it that way.
and is there freeware for programs to watch movies and listen to music for linux? like VLC or winamp etc
im capped atm so i cant really check =)

i downloaded an image file... not sure what to do with this. do i mount it and then try copy it in nero or what?
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Just use Nero to "Burn Image to Disk", and then stick in in your CDROM and set your BIOS to boot from CD.

In terms of Linux apps:

Music: Amarok - quite possibly the greatest piece of music software ever written.

Video: VLC

CD/DVD Burning - k3b

Let me know if you need any others.

Once you have installed and are up and running, open the Adept Package Manager (I think that comes with Ubuntu?) and just search for any apps you want to install (i.e. do a search for VLC), and then mark it for install, and Adept will download it for you and install it.
 
Kasyx said:
Just use Nero to "Burn Image to Disk", and then stick in in your CDROM and set your BIOS to boot from CD.

In terms of Linux apps:

Music: Amarok - quite possibly the greatest piece of music software ever written.

Video: VLC

CD/DVD Burning - k3b

Let me know if you need any others.

Once you have installed and are up and running, open the Adept Package Manager (I think that comes with Ubuntu?) and just search for any apps you want to install (i.e. do a search for VLC), and then mark it for install, and Adept will download it for you and install it.
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awesome... i saw that the iso also has firefox, thunderbird and a word processing thing included in it... definately going to give this a try!
thanks man
 
A spare HDD would be ideal, but VMWare also works if the PC is powerful and you don't have a spare HDD.

VMWare download works over local only btw.
 
HavocXphere said:
A spare HDD would be ideal, but VMWare also works if the PC is powerful and you don't have a spare HDD.

VMWare download works over local only btw.
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awesome. would a 2.2 core 2 duo with 2 gig ram be ok?
and what is it that i need to download from there? there's a lot of things on the site... VMware 3.5 ESX?
 
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awesome. would a 2.2 core 2 duo with 2 gig ram be ok?
and what is it that i need to download from there? there's a lot of things on the site... VMware 3.5 ESX?
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Yeah, that PC sounds powerful enough. If your CPU has VT technology then it'll work even better.

The VMWare Workstation version is ideal...but you need a serial key for it. However, the same effect can be achieved with a combo of the VMWare player and the server , which are both free afaik. The server is used to "create" the virtual machine while the player is used to actually run it. You'll need to scout for some tutorials for the Player+Server variation first to make sure cause I'm not 100% sure.
 
fook dled the server and player and can get neither to work ie i cannot even even install the damn progs (give me an .exe anyday)
 
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