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Hello Guys,

I HAVE FINALLY UPGRADED FROM windows xp TO MANDRAKE LINUX 9.2 without losing any data (without accidently formatting the whole hard drive). :D

Now I have got some questions.

1. Is there any other windows applications emulator for linux other than WINE.

2. Which window manager is the best (I am using GNOME right now).

3. Is there any Visual Tool for Linux Development like Visual Basic for Windows.

4. Is there any WMA files player. If no then suggest a good CD Ripper.

5. Suggest a decent Audio Player for Linux.

6. Suggest good sites for mastering in Linux.

Thanks for reading my long list questions. :huh:

I hope to get positive response from the Linux Community living on the Neowin.net Board.

Thanks.

Umer

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I'll try to answer some of your questions...

2. I prefer KDE, but desktop managers do all have their own pro's and con's.

3. Development tools enough... But more experienced people can tell you more about it...

5. I use XMMS, which is a kind of a Winamp clone.

6. Read some information on websites and/or O'Reilly-books .

Greetz,

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2. Seems like more things are being developed towards KDE then Gnome. But i beleive both are compatible with each other (right?). I prefer KDE myself.

3. Try KDevelop. Its an IDE interface, i like it.

5. XMMS is the best I've found. Pretty much a winamp 2 clone. I haven't found anything that handles a "Media Library" like winamp 5. I want something like that personally.\

I too would like to know of a good CD Ripper program. I think you can find a bunch of them at sourceforge. Check out sourceforge for all kinds of free apps for linux.

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1. Unless you wan't to run Windows in bochs or VMWare, wine's your only serious bet. There may be others, but I don't know about them.

2. You asked for window manager, Blackbox is the best. It's just a window manager, not a full package like KDE, GNOME, CDE and maybe XFCE.

3. KDevelop pops to mind.

4. MPlayer. By far the best media player for linux. Plays everything from mp3s to WMV and more. It even play realplayer files provided you have the dlls (provided on the site).

5. Same as above.

6. Just experiment. Learn as you go.

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Oh, come on, people!

Everyone has missed the most important line!

I HAVE FINALLY UPGRADED FROM windows xp TO MANDRAKE LINUX 9.2

CONTRATULATIONS!

And welcome to the exciting world of Open Source Software! :D

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You asked for window manager, Blackbox is the best. It's just a window manager, not a full package like KDE, GNOME, CDE and maybe XFCE.

matter of opinion. I prefer fluxbox over blackbox. nearly the same, but they are different.

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Oh, come on, people!

Everyone has missed the most important line!

I HAVE FINALLY UPGRADED FROM windows xp TO MANDRAKE LINUX 9.2

CONTRATULATIONS!

And welcome to the exciting world of Open Source Software! :D

Thanks. :D

I hope to have a nice time in World of Open Source. Its pretty exciting. :yes:

And Thanks for all the answers. I now have plenty of applications. :huh:

One thing I want to ask more is how can I install .tar.gz applications.

Mandrake has the rpm installer but how do I install the tar.gz applications.

Thanks for the help.

Umer

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tar.gz means that it is in a tar file inside a gzip file. You can use ark or file-roller to open them really easy. Once you have them open you will most often have to compile them yourself. Save whatever is inside to a directory and keep it all in order. then go to the directory and if there is an INSTALL or README file open it up and read it. If not then look at what is there. These are not always the same, but the majority of them you have to do the following on:

configure

make

(as root) make install

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2. Seems like more things are being developed towards KDE then Gnome. But i beleive both are compatible with each other (right?). I prefer KDE myself.

3. Try KDevelop. Its an IDE interface, i like it.

5. XMMS is the best I've found. Pretty much a winamp 2 clone. I haven't found anything that handles a "Media Library" like winamp 5. I want something like that personally.\

I too would like to know of a good CD Ripper program. I think you can find a bunch of them at sourceforge. Check out sourceforge for all kinds of free apps for linux.

you obviously haven't tried the latest gnome 2.6 beta release ;-) http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/garnome/ give it a whirl then tell me what you think

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Hello Guys,

I HAVE FINALLY UPGRADED FROM windows xp TO MANDRAKE LINUX 9.2 without losing any data (without accidently formatting the whole hard drive). :D

Now I have got some questions.

1. Is there any other windows applications emulator for linux other than WINE.

2. Which window manager is the best (I am using GNOME right now).

3. Is there any Visual Tool for Linux Development like Visual Basic for Windows.

4. Is there any WMA files player. If no then suggest a good CD Ripper.

5. Suggest a decent Audio Player for Linux.

6. Suggest good sites for mastering in Linux.

Thanks for reading my long list questions. :huh:

I hope to get positive response from the Linux Community living on the Neowin.net Board.

Thanks.

Umer

1. Crossover Office and WineX. Remember to use the native alternatives, no need to e.g run Winamp in Wine.

2. Which one is the best is very subjective. I'd use KDE over GNOME, but I prefer FluxBox for my own purpose

3. You have several text based ones with syntax highlight, other than that you have e.g the qt designer and some gtk development tools. nvu is nice for wysiwyg html

4. WMA is such crap. Closed-source fileformat that is not easily played. Rip all your stuff to Ogg Vorbis (.ogg), which is the best alternative out there. Ogg Vorbis is 25% smaller than mp3, and it is open-source as well.

5. xmms

6. google, http://linuxforums.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1154 , http://www.linuxcommand.org/

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2. Which one is the best is very subjective. I'd use KDE over GNOME, but I prefer FluxBox for my own purpose

For me it really depends. In my slackware install I use fluxbox and dropline gnome. Both are very fast on slackware. However on the mandrake 10 install I use kde. There is no noticeable difference between kde and gnome, but it is gnome 2.4 I think. I am not going to change that as mandrake is going to stay with stable well tested older programs and slackware is going to stay bleeding.

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Heh I like how he used the word upgraded :laugh:

RipperX and Grip are pretty good for ripping CDs. Not sure about WMA conversion, but XMMS and MPlayer can play WMA so I'm not sure why you'd want to convert lossy format to lossy format (except to dump Microsoft stuff completely?).

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