18-07-2004, 02:05 AM
Quote:Originally posted by FlyingBok
Well done Pic's
If all goes well I will get my new Lapdog on Tuesday ... while she is clean and beautiful I wonder if I must not make the big leap ??
[B]Question 1
Will a program like Nokia Suite work on Mandrake 10 ?
That is the suite for my mobile ?
How about Office 2003 ?
Q 2
If I make a full back up of my hard drive (with that new Freecom hard drive). Will I be able to access my photo's / video's / Office doc's (.doc / excell etc ?? )
Cheers and thanks so long !
Die Bok [/B]
Oom Bok yes you could run stuff like Nokia Suite on Linux but it isnt as simple as all the other stuff in that you would ned to run emulator software to make the programs think they were running on Windows The same goes for any other MS software.
Regarding Office, FB you get a software package called Open Office that comes gratis with Mandrake. It can do 99% of the things that MS Office can do at no cost. You can use it to share documents etc with Office users.
Yes you would be able to access your backup drive. I use my drive on a Windows machine at work and then take the stuff home and access it all on my Linux box.
The best to do is partition your hard drive into two or more drives. Install XP or whatever first. Then install Linux on the other partition. It will automatically configure a boot menu for you. That way you test the waters in Linux to see what you think without losing your windows functions.
Alternatively look on the net (or on Linux magazine cover discs) for a Live Evaluation copy of Suse. This gives you a fully working Linux install on a CD. You boot from it and then have a linux system running instead of Windows. It doesnt touch your hard drive so it is safe to see what Linux is like. Sun have also recently released a similar CD Rom which also appears a good way to experiment.