-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 03 February 2002 09:18 am, James Pifer wrote: > I've been working a lot with Redhat lately, but mostly on temporary > systems or using VMWare on Win2K. I've learned a lot but think I need > to install it and run it on a dedicated, well used system to keep the > learning going. Before blowing away my Win2K setup and installing RH72 > on one of my systems, I have a few concerns about things I can't live > without.
> CD-Burning > In the archives I've found a lot about burning CD's. I have a Sony > CD-RW CRX160E. I want to use a GUI interface to burn CD's and in the > archives found mention of Xcdroast and mystBurn. I assume I would be > able to burn CD's from an ISO image as well as create my own > multi-session CD's. What about Video CD's? Can I do this on Linux? Will > I be disappointed at all compared with using software like Nero or > Adaptec CD Creator Deluxe? Xcdroast is a GUI front end for cdrecord. The cdrecord homepage should have drive compatibility status. I know that the Sony CRX145E is supported, not sure about yours. http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html > Scanner > I have a parallel port Visioneer Paperport 6100B. Will I still be able > to use my scanner? What front end software is recommended for this? > Worst case I could move this to one of my other systems, but that kind > of gets away from the point. I want to try and use Linux as a > replacement for win2K. You can look here: http://www.mostang.com/sane/sane-backends.html Check out the link at the top of the page for parallel port scanners. > Pretty much all of my games will not work, but who has time for that > anyway, right? I figure I'll look at Staroffice for my Office suite. > Last I heard that was still free to use. Some games will work under wine. Here is a list of games known to work: http://appdb.codeweavers.com/appbrowse.php?catId=2 > Any suggestions from people who have made this leap would be > appreciated. I haven't used windows in some time. I don't miss it. About the only application I missed was Quicken. I have it working (minimally) under wine. There are linux programs similar to quicken, but most just aren't quite ready for prime time. - -D - -- pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/pgpkey.txt - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD4DBQE8XU2GeMAUbzJhSVcRAqGIAJQP9AYpciPhxikzdxpDWWc9HUrPAJ9/JDiH VnhLA7B4SoNP0zKQDfZBGg== =9bUg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list