Re: I want to migrate to Linux

pcbldrNinetyEight staggered into the Black Sun and said:
[much snippage, he wants to know whether these things will work in Linux
under wine or whether Linux equivalents for them exist]
TrueSpace 4.3 (this version untested in WINE)
Bryce 4 (this version untested in WINE)
Poser 4 (this version untested in WINE)
iSpace 1.0 (unknown to WINE)
LiveMotion 1.2 (unknown to WINE)

Damned if I know. 3D work just isn't one of my major interests. If
rendering speed isn't a big deal, you *might* be able to run these
things under virtualbox or vmware, depending on various things.

Photoshop 6 (WINE gold) , Word 97 (WINE gold)

openoffice.org and gimp?

DeepBurner , DeepRipper

I assume these are CD/DVD programs. k3b and/or dvd::rip, depending on
what exactly it is you want to do.

Epson Smart Panel (for 1240U scanner)

The vast majority of Epson scanners and printers are supported with
various SANE and CUPS backends. Check http://www.sane-project.org/ for
scanners, http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting for printers.

Presto OCR (or) TextBridge OCR (for 1240U scanner)

There are AFAICT no good OCR programs that exist under Linux right now.
Run these things in virtualbox/wine/vmware.

KB Gear Pablo USB drawing tablet driver

Never heard of it. If it uses wacom-like protocols, it'll work, but you
may have to fiddle with your xorg.conf in non-newbie-friendly ways. If
it uses some bizarre protocol, it'll be a paperweight.

Logitech 8.2 mouse driver (with smart move)

Huh? All USB mice are supported. All PS/2 mice should be supported. I
don't think most people know what "smart move" is in this context, so
maybe you should explain what it is you want your mouse to do. (It's
pretty easy to bind mouse button presses to arbitrary actions using
xbindkeys and xmacroplay.)

NIC driver for onboard LAN, Biostar NF325-A7 MOBO
AMD Cool 'n' Quiet
WarpSpeeder (MOBO temp and voltage monitor)

These things are almost certainly supported. NICs by modules in the
standard kernel, CPU frequency by cpufreqd, temperature and voltage by
lm_sensors.

FaxTalk Plus 3.0

People still use fax in this day and age? How primitive.

K-Meleon 1.1 (with full screen and tab browsing)

This is the first I've heard of this project in 5 years. I thought it
had been abandoned.

X-News

xnews? There are more native NNTP clients for Linux than you can shake
a stick at.

Starter (registry editor to control apps started at boot up)

It's called "the SysV Init Layout", and is typically managed by
rc-update or update-rc.d or chkconfig or another distro-specific tool.

FontExplorer

What's this do?

EPIC Pinball , NASCAR 1999 , IndyCar Racing 2 , Wing Commander 3,
Tie Fighter

These are old, so wine might work.

I manually assign IP addresses for this peer to peer wired network.

It'd be easier to set up a DHCP server and lock the MAC addrs of all the
boxes to particular IPs.

All three PCs have internal dialup modems, all of which can dial out.
I don't need to know the nitty gritty details of how to set this up in
Linux right now

Yes, you do. Just about every PCI modem is a LoseModem. There are
supported LoseModems and unsupported LoseModems. You need to boot each
machine from a LiveCD and note the output from /sbin/lspci on all of
them and post that info here. Do not rely on the 'Doze Device Mangler;
it lies like a rug about important details.

Most Lucent and Conexant LoseModems are reasonably easy to get working.
It should be possible to get an Intel 82801 LoseModem working with
slmodem, but I haven't needed to do that as I've had a decent Net drop
for the last 5 years. Note that *ALL* LoseModems require evil
binary-only code that usually can't be included on distro CDs for legal
reasons. HTH anyway,

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