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I want to move to Linux...please help!

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madluther:
@bwid_s_01:

For your DVD / mpeg2  needs this might interest you.

Regards.

solo:
Lemme iterate on the ISO thing. I don't know if GNOME or KDE have an automatic mounting option, but Linux itself supports mounting ISOs as virtual _devices_ natively and has so for a long time   .

Here's how you do it straight from the command line (there may be an easier GUI method):

mount <filename> <mntpoint> -t iso9660 -o loop=/dev/loop1

Now in Linux there are no "drives" (like C:, D: etc). Instead, Linux keeps track of whats called a Virtual File System. When Linux boots, it puts your hard drive at the very root of the "VFS" (this root is referred to as "/"). Then the system mounts your CD-ROM, Floppy etc under certain mount points. Although the system usually handles this for you, you can do it yourself too.

The cool thing about VFS is that you can mount other hard drives, partitions, network shares etc directly onto the filesystem. So if you want to use one copy of the Linux application directory (usually /usr/bin on traditional Linux distributions) between two computers--perhaps to save space--you can do so by making a network share of /usr/bin on one computer, and then mounting that share on the other computer (at /usr/bin). Now, anything that happens in /usr/bin on either computer is seen by both.

Now a common misconception about VFS is that Linux copies all the files it is mounting to the hard drive. It doesnt, it just makes it look like it is all one file system.

solo:
God damn am I tired. I posted twice.

[ August 02, 2003: Message edited by: Fury: Freedom Fighter ]

Faust:

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Need a good calculator program

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Maple if your really interested in an uber powerful maths application.   Kinda like a graphics calculator pumped up on loads of steroids and with a nicer UI (and some cool 3d graphing.)  The PhD lecturers in my university use this little puppy when they're not on the supercomputers and it kicks god damn arse.  You wanna try factorising equations which involve both complex numbers and +/- infinity?  Go the fuck ahead.  You wanna try and work pi to an arbitrary number of digits from within the program itself and then try and find common factors in it?  Maple can do it.  (Question is whether your CPU can take that amount of mathematical strain...)  Also you can do >2 dimensional calculus with it (yay!)
That said octave is probably adequate to your needs, and it's free and Free.  I haven't used it yet, so I may have to have a peepers at this octave...  I kinda need to get rid of the shame of using proprietary Maple.  

Also mp3 is crap, use ogg.  Not that Linux doesn't support mp3, but it's still crap.

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