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Meteor:
Hi All,

I'm new here and want to change from using windows xp to Redhat linux 9 in my notebook (Acer TravelMate 430 series)by making a fresh installation and having a single boot only.

On doing so what will happen to my emails in outlook and will be able to use them back if i save the .pst files?

The MS office is the one which I'm using currently and so if I change to some other office tools, will other users be able to use my documents?

The CD burning software and music, games can i happen to use something to replace them?

hm_murdock:
Those are all very, very good questions which someone should be able to answer.

Good luck

Paladin9:
keep in mind that you will need to format your whole hard drive.  That means you will need to backup any of your important stuff.  I suggest not ever using outlook express even if you are using windows.  As for office documents, use openoffice.org.  It is just like microsoft office and it can open microsoft documents and save them too.  It works the same as ms office too, so you do not need to re-lean a program.

Refalm:
Mozilla Mail is able to import Outlook back-ups. So burn all your non-Windows files (documents, movies, music, Mail, bookmarks, etc.) on a CD, or copy them to another computer.

And about Red Hat Linux 9... it's old. Get Fedora instead. It's kinda Red Hat 10:

ftp://alviss.et.tudelft.nl/pub/fedora/core/1/i386/iso/ (download the i386 ones, not the SRPM ones).

[ February 25, 2004: Message edited by: Refalm ]

solarflare:

quote:Originally posted by Meteor:
Hi All,

I'm new here and want to change from using windows xp to Redhat linux 9 in my notebook (Acer TravelMate 430 series)by making a fresh installation and having a single boot only.

On doing so what will happen to my emails in outlook and will be able to use them back if i save the .pst files?

The MS office is the one which I'm using currently and so if I change to some other office tools, will other users be able to use my documents?

The CD burning software and music, games can i happen to use something to replace them?
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Congratulations and welcome to the 'real world of computing!!

No that you have shown windows the exit door you will now experience what it's like to use operating systems without a virus!

I wish you best of luck with Redhat Linux - I personally use Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) - if you don't get on with Red Hat I would heartily recommend a Mac and OS X!!

thanks

Pete

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