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OK..

Once AGAIN I would like to make the transfer to Linux.

I am getting fed up with Microshit and would like to use it on my Desktop at home as well.

What is keeping me?

OK, I need three things:

1) File sharing with a windows machine - My wife won't use Linux.
This should be easy using Samba, anything to keep in mind?

2) Printer sharing with a windows network - we NEED this, same as above.

3) Synchronization with a windows mobile - I need this.

So, any ideas?
The linux distro I am looking to is Ubuntu, using Gnome.

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Samba is pretty simple to set up to both share files and printers with windows based computers.

In regards to syncing with Windows Mobile. What do you currently use? You can install WINE under Linux and it is extremely efficient at running almost any Windows application seamlessly.

I would also agree on your choice of Ubuntu with gnome for a desktop. Loads of support and help if needed. Very user friendly and intuitive.

Just curious - what is your reasoning to ditch M$? Pricing? Just bored of it?
 
I personally am using openSUSE, which is awesome. I tried installing ubuntu but it just wouldn't go - which sucks.

openSUSE is easy to net install and like most linux distribution you can use quite a few of your old windows programs using WINE, which is a windows emulator.

I'm sure you can do all those you listed above, you just have to look up the documentation for them and should be good to go. Great thing about openSUSE is the one-click install off a lot of software.
 
^-- LOL

Also at Rage9 - Dude, I KNOW how to install Linux. I just need pointers to help me make it my home system.
K? Thanks.

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emp said:
OK..

Once AGAIN I would like to make the transfer to Linux.

I am getting fed up with Microshit and would like to use it on my Desktop at home as well.

What is keeping me?

OK, I need three things:

1) File sharing with a windows machine - My wife won't use Linux.
This should be easy using Samba, anything to keep in mind?

2) Printer sharing with a windows network - we NEED this, same as above.

3) Synchronization with a windows mobile - I need this.

So, any ideas?
The linux distro I am looking to is Ubuntu, using Gnome.

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I use Ubuntu 100% and so does my wife.

1) Accessing files on the windows machines at the school I worked at was easy. In fact, it was even easier to set up than windows.

I never shared my own files, though I could very easily. If I needed my students to get a file, I just threw a symbolic link to the file in the www folder and my students could access it there.

2) Printer Sharing was easy on the school network as well. Most of the drivers are already included in the distro.

3) I don't know about synchronization to Windows Mobile, sorry.
 
1) Easy pie, tutorials are all over the place if you have trouble

2) I've never had an issue with a windows to linux or linux to windows printing.

3) dunno.

4*) Photoshop sucks in wine, keep that in mind. If it wasn't for that I'd run linux all the time.
 
hmpf...

"the OS of the future" - yeah, since 20 years.

::emp::
 
Ubuntu is a good choice simply because it has the best support in the industry.

Don't forget Wine doesn't always work and if that's the case you can always virtualize Windows within Linux.
 
Ubuntu is pretty slick. I bought a desktop a couple of months ago with Vista preinstalled (2 gigs of ram). I fired it up the first time and it was struggling. When I went to the system monitor it showed i had 6 MB of free memory. Goodbye vista.

Ubuntu fires up in about 30 seconds from booting, their library is poo easy to find good software, and it takes up about 250 MBs of memory (blazes)
 
SkyFire said:
1) Easy pie, tutorials are all over the place if you have trouble

2) I've never had an issue with a windows to linux or linux to windows printing.

3) dunno.

4*) Photoshop sucks in wine, keep that in mind. If it wasn't for that I'd run linux all the time.
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GIMP is a decent substitute
 
Just run a dual boot system. Keep Windows on there for when you absolutely have to use it. Boot it to Linux by default. I ran this way for years until I got my Mac. Don't look back.

I ran an older PC as a file server on Linux for nearly two years. I think I rebooted it one time.
 
emp said:
^-- LOL

Also at Rage9 - Dude, I KNOW how to install Linux. I just need pointers to help me make it my home system.
K? Thanks.

::emp::
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Dude, just another one of my drunkin post int he wrong thread, lol. Not the first and won't be the last.
 
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