windows to linux relation 2082

Black Sun and said:

A great many programs that you'll want to run as an end-user are inusr-bin. Often, KDE programs are installed inusr-kde-X.Y-bin. Games are often installed inusr-games-bin. Vital system utilities are stored inbinandsbin. There's no one single answer to this.

Mu. ("Your question cannot be answered because it depends on incorrect buttumptions.")

What? tmp , maybe.

~-.mozilla-firefox-$RANDOM-Cache

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Buy Crossover Office and run MS Orifice under that if you think you need "native" MS Orifice. OpenOffice is the way to go for everybody who doesn't have insanely specialized needs.

If you're asking "How do I install programs in SuSE Linux?", then the answer is "start YaST, use it according to its documentation."

What? Explain these more fully. Whether a file is executable or not depends on filesystem permission bits. If a file has the executable bit set, it'll be executable. You open a terminal by picking "konsole" out of the K menu, or pressing Alt-F2 and typing "konsole" (or "xterm" if you're old-school) in the mini-CLI.

Not necessary.

Google:--"unix backup and recovery". tar, cpio, amanda, or if you like to pay for stuff, BRU. For backing things up to DVD+-R, k3b is very nice.

into Konqueror's location bar. There are other FTP clients out there, try 3 or 4 of them and use whichever one you like best.

There is no I.Exploder for Linux, unless you want to try running it under wine or Crossover Office. I.Exploder lacks so many useful features that I'm amazed that anyone with a brain is still using it.

Use gaim instead. It's updated more frequently, it's already on your distro CDs, and it can be used with multiple IM networks.

Is this some sort of weird Windows thing? There are more daemons than you can shake a stick at that run under Linux. If you have a program that does A, B, and C, and you need to do that under Linux, describe A, B, and C.

If you want to try running them under wine, go check winehq.com first, where they have a bunch of 'Doze programs listed along with any steps you need to take to make sure everything works. Crossover Office may run more 'Doze games, or run them better, or something. 'Doze executables don't run natively under Linux for obvious reasons.

? Interleaved posting, as seen in this message, is the way things are typically done on Usenet.

If you think that there's a one-to-one mapping between Windows and Linux functions-utilities-concepts, you're gravely mistaken. There are *huge* differences in the basic structures of the OSes. These differences show up all over the place, and they may confuse the hell out of you. One possible remedy is to go to your local Linux User Group meeting, then offer one of the gurus beer and pizza in exchange for teaching you things. Ah well, HTH,

-- Matt GThere is no Darkness in Eternity-But only Light too dim for us to see Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin mail: TRAP + SPAN don't belong ----------------------------- penguins, is Tux." --MegaHAL