Re: [Finale] OT Linux

2006-10-14 Thread Ken Moore
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] Yes, aside from the computers, there are five printers, three scanners, and a bunch of peripherals (such as a slide scanner, two cameras, a pen tablet, and many external drives) -- many without Linux drivers. Yes, that's the problem, especi

Re: [Finale] OT Linux

2006-10-14 Thread Carl Dershem
Ken Moore wrote: Dennis Bathory-Kitsz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That still leaves me with 13 years of Windows software that I'm very fond of using without needing to think about each step, and of course Finale, Adobe Audition, Pagemaker, Sonar, Photoshop and other expensive programs that don'

[Finale] OT Linux [was: Converting old files: why bother?]

2006-10-12 Thread Ken Moore
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I tossed an Ubuntu Linux CD into my main desktop the other day, and was up & running fine from the CD, including configuring the network, within ten minutes (and only using the GUI, too). Linux looks like my next stop after I leave the Windows trai

Re: [Finale] OT Linux [was: Converting old files: why bother?]

2006-10-12 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 07:15 PM 10/12/06 +0100, Ken Moore wrote: >That sounds very attractive if you are happy with a Unix-like >environment. I'm just using the GUI. My insignificant knowledge of the Unix environment is based on FreeBSD. Thing is, I don't really want to do any command-line stuff, which is why I've b

Re: [Finale] OT Linux [was: Converting old files: why bother?]

2006-10-12 Thread David W. Fenton
On 12 Oct 2006 at 19:15, Ken Moore wrote: > Is there a Linux implementation of Windows networking? SAMBA. It's available in every Linux distribution I've ever heard of. -- David W. Fentonhttp://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ __