WoofyDugfock
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Posted: Nov. 20 2004,09:13 |
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Another highly informative post by Ke4NT1 above - I think its the clearest explanation on this I've read.
WickedKilla - There are much more knowledgeable posters on this board than me but I'll try to answer a couple of your queries.
MP3 etc - I would have thought XMMS would play most of these provided you can get your soundcard working with dsl?
Games - not my area but Windows games are designed for Windows. In general there are far fewer games of the stunning graphics variety written for Linux. I'm not sure what experiences people have had running trying to run Windows games on DSL with eg Wine (which emulates Windows) - search the board. There are also websites which deal with exactly what win games can be got to run on wine under linux. You also have to consider whether your system resources could cope - recent games won't even run to their full potential on Windows without a fast processor & a late model graphics card.
"Profile" on your HD (??) - I think you might mean "partition", in which case you're referring to what's called a 'Dual boot' system: Win on one partition & DSL on the other. You choose which os at boot time using a 'boot loader' eg grub.
You need to know what you're doing with a HD install because core system files can easily get overwritten - not possible with live CD/poormans boot. I don't use one yet. DSL is not really intended for HD installs, it's just that people have found these useful. Read the website.
Look at the MyDSL respository (http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/damnsmall/mydsl/multimedia/) to see what linux games definitely run on DSL (have been turned into .dsl packages). Other games on apt-get should also be runnable in theory - if you don't know what this is you need to do some searching on this board.
WDF
PS: A suggestion - I find you're more likely to get more & better answers on any board etc if (a) you don't ask too many questions at once, and (b) you show you've looked for a solution first.
If you're getting into linux learn to use google.
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