[cumbria_lug] Making the leap...

[David Priestley]

Hi,


On 23/05/10 12:54, Barry Drinkwater wrote:
> Ok, so I'm on my third 'try' of Linux having originally tried Mandrake 
> way back (too much like hard work) and Ubuntu (had a problem with 
> IPv6). I'm studying the Open University's Linux course (T155) on a 
> laptop running Vista. My usual OS is XP, but that's upstairs and after 
> spending 6.5 years studying for my OU degree on it (finished a couple 
> of years ago), hidden away from life, I decided I'd do T155 on the 
> laptop downstairs.
>
> And... Vista is just awful. How did it get through MS quality testing? 
> It makes me angry when I use it!
>
> I've been running Ubuntu in Virtual Box for T155, but I've just 
> installed it to its own partition to get a nicer Linux experience. The 
> reason for posting is that I'm quite tempted to go the whole hog and 
> drop Vista altogether. However, there are some applications which I'd 
> still need to use. These are Adobe Photoshop Elements (for cataloging 
> my photos) and Acronis Online Backup.
>
> So the question is, do I dump Vista and try and get these to run in 
> Wine, or keep a small Windows partition?

How about running Windows XP inside VirtualBox on Ubuntu?
Its what I do for my Windows software (Ubuntu 10.04 on my laptop, 
Windows XP inside VirtualBox)

While a lot of stuff works 'OK' with Wine - its not brilliant at  
everything, which is why I have a VirtualBox Windows image, rather than 
a separate partition.  It means I can backup the whole of the Windows 
system, or copy the original installation image and try something new, 
without interfering with my existing install.

> The other alternative is to find Linux software that does the same 
> job. I know there is a beta version of Google Picasa for Linux - does 
> anyone know if it's possible to transfer tags from Elements to Picasa?

Google Picasa for Linux isn't a beta - 2.7 is a stable verison (only 3 
is beta)
http://picasa.google.com/linux/thanks-deb.html


> Regarding Acronis Online Backup, this is used to backup photos, music, 
> documents etc. These are held on an external NTFS drive. Is it 
> possible for Ubuntu to use this disk? If so, I could just find another 
> FTP based online storage provider and use Linux FTP software.

Linux is able to access NTFS partitions.  Not sure about Acronis - never 
used it personally.


>
> Any help/thoughts most welcome.
>
> Barry
>
>
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DP
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