Help me i'm really a newbie in linux mint

[miket]

Hi,

Welcome to the wonderful world of Linux Mint !

There is another option open to you to run your windows programs.
It is possible under Linux Mint to create what is called a "VirtualMachine" ... it is very easy to do and will give you
the ability to run windows in your Linux Mint environment.

If you take a look at http://www.virtualbox.org you will see what I am talking about.

Basically you can create a "VirtualMachine" and install Windows into the machine as if it were a normal PC,
then use this to run your windows programs.

This is how I do it as I have to support my customers who use the windows environment.
You can run almost any version of windows in this fashion, I am now running both XP and Vista in two
separate "VirtualMachines".

If you have any more questions or need help installing VirtualBox then please post here and I will try my best
to answer your questions directly.

As for your documents, if they are standard MS Office documents then you can continue to edit them under Open Office
which is installed by default under Linux Mint.

Mike.
http://www.avanceit.co.uk

Hi im really a newbie here in Linux mint can someone help me how to get around using Linux. Im somewhat really confused switching from Xp to Linux.... Like im having trouble installing my games and applications from Windows xp to Linux. I really dont know what to do tnx

[linuxviolin]

you can read/copy files off NTFS but you can't write them to it

Hmm sorry but "can't write" to NTFS? Do you know ntfs-3g? This allows you to write on your NTFS partitions...

[newW2]

Take a look at the post below, starting at: MACHINE CREATION. Also, make sure you add all users who wish to use it to the 'vboxusers' group.

To do this run :
sudo usermod -a -G vboxusers YOUR_LOGIN_NAME

[newW2]

Don't think so. See this forum post:
http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic. ... t=directx9

[newW2]

The wiki has links to free books as well.
http://www.linuxmint.com/wiki/index.php ... umentation

And here are a couple links to keep handy:
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/linux/cmd/
http://www.ss64.com/bash/
http://www.scottklarr.com/topic/115/lin ... ollection/

Ok enough to keep you busy for now.

[MagnusB]

BTW, Pidgin does not support video chat. So you have to either use aMSN or other for video & sound chat.