OpenEuphoria

Re: Upgrading from XP to Linux

• Posted by Travis Beaty <travis at travisbeaty.us> Jun 13, 2004
• 461 views

On Saturday 12 June 2004 06:22 pm, Al Getz wrote:

> Travis:
> Thanks for the offer, i'll probably need to take you
> up on that   What kind of Linux are you running?

Mandrake 10.0 Community Edition.  My window manager of choice is KDE.

>
>
> List of results/problems so far:
>
> 1.  Couldnt figure out how to read the FAT32 hard drive.
>     Only the virtual drive showed up on menues.
>     Wanted to save a test text file to hard disk and
>     couldnt because it doesnt see them or something.
>     Four 'DOS' hard drive partitions show up as
>     one drive "dev/something" in the config thing.
> 2.  Couldnt find any development tools on the cd, maybe
>     they are in the full cd set?  I heard lots of stuff
>     like that comes with linux distro's.

In Linux, the development tools are so much an integral part of the system, 
you may have them without realize it.  I've heard that Lindows doesn't have 
them by default, and I know that the Damn Small Linux distribution doesn't 
have them.  But the rest of them, ifaik, has them.

Pop open a terminal, type gcc --version, and see what happens.

> 3.  Couldnt find more then one desktop style, i thought
>     there were something like four including GNome?

There are a number of windows managers.  My favorite is KDE.  There is also 
Gnome, IceWM, Enlightenment, WindowMaker, and about six jazillion 
others.    Usually, when you log in, you can choose which particular one 
you want to run if you have more than one installed.  Most people do have 
more than one windows manager ... I like KDE, so it is the only one that I 
have installed on my system.

> 4.  Cant download Euphoria for linux until i get int connect.
>     Cant download under win and transfer under linux because
>     cant find hard drive paths in menues/file manager.

Okay ... this might have been answered, but did you try /mnt/windows? Linux 
does not use drive letters such as C: or D:.  Everything is a directory.

For instance, to get to my Windows partition in Linux, I go to /mnt/windows.  
I find the floppy, /mnt/floppy.

Travis.