Re: Beginners Linux Questions
- From: Walter Mautner <newswood.20.eatallspam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:26:57 +0100
bobrics wrote:
> Thanks for your advices, everyone!
> I am liking Linux more and more. I have a couple of utils I was used to
> in Windows that still keep me attached to it. I'll list them below. Pls
> let me know of the equivalents in Linux. Here are some more
> questions...
>
> 1.
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> How did you make it to start automatically and minimized? that would be
> interesting to find out.
Just save a kde session with your settings and the minimized konsole
window. Switch your kde preferences to "restore manually saved session".
> Thanks for the advices. I will get into command prompt, but would like
> to have a backward compatibility as well, especially in the beginning
> and in the cases when I would not want to type long names.
>
> 2.
> BTW, here is a question relating to long file names...
> Which MP3 player and which DVD/divx players are you using?
> My favorite ones in Windows are Winamp and Windows Media player or
> Media Player Classic.
>
xmms for gnome and amarok for kde (mp3 players).
Xine or gmplayer (you will need the plf-nonfree repository for viewing dvds
and other interesting stuff) for videos
> 3. Another util I like is Active Desktop Calendar. It's a transparent
> calendar on the background, summarizing the tasks. I've seen an
> equivalent utility in Fedora, but I am wondering if it is possible to
> do the following.
> If I'll reformat one of my NTFS partitions to FAT32 to make it
> accessible by Fedora and install some program both, on Windows and
> Linux (I would still need to use Windows sometimes)... and make the
> program to store all the calendar data (tasks, todos, memos) on that
> drive. If the program stores the info in the same format (both in
> windows and linux), that would be ideal! - I would be able to modify
> the tasks from both of the systems - and keep them synchronized!
> IS THIS possible? Has someone done this before?
>
Don't think it will work that way. Isn't there a calender plugin for
thunderbird? That program should work with the same configs from within
windows as well. But then ... with fat32 you have no fileystem security,
and everyone can accidently or by intent mess your data.
> 4. Regarding NTFS partition, I've realized that it's not supported by
> Fedora Core 4. There is some project going on to support it, but I
> haven't checked out whether it's possible or not. Do you think it's
> better of right now to keep all non-linux partitions FAT32 except for
> C: (with Windows)?
>
FAT32 has some limitations, like maximum filesize (inconvenient at least for
dvd images *g*) and no access policies (so everyone can delete everything).
You can still have write support with captive-ntfs, but like there is
perfect read support for ntfs in linux, you will find read support for
ext2/3/reiser as freeware/oss programs for windows.
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