thebearwitchproject wrote:
Well after the hlp I recieve from my first posts, reading up some more and getting a copy of Fedora 3 from a Linux mag here in the UK I will be installing this weekend.
I am getting a new hard drive and sorting out my
others so I should have a 40 gig one just for linux.
That's a fair amount of HDD space, though if you will be doing transcondings, it may fall short... Just a word of caution there.
I just have a couple more questions. I have downloaded
the printer thing and ADSL drivers someone mentioned,
extracted them and burnt the to a CD-RW. Now when I
put the disc in do I just double click on the relevent
file to start the install, like I do in Windows?
What do you mean by ADSL drivers and printer drivers (well the printer drives may be necesary...). I ask because pretty much configuring your ADSL is *quite* easy: When you first boot into the system, open Applications-->System Tools-->Internet connection Wizard. That will prompt you for some information about the new connection, select ADSL, your uname, pw, provider, connection name, etc. Pretty much that's about it. So I don't think you need any special drivers... Now answering your question, the installation of software (a la Windows) is possible, but instead of being the files with an .exe extension, they have to be .rpm, then a program called Package Manager will open, show you some info of the file you're installing and install the package.
My second question invlved DVD software. I currently
use MainConcept to re-encode avi files and TMPGE to
burn DVDs. Is there linux versions of these? If not
can you recommend some good re-encoding and burning
software?
Well, in this regard, I *know* there is a Pro version of the DVD mastering tools (dvdrecord), which are abackend and that backend can be used by many of the popular frontends like K3B. As far as I know, though you get full dvd record support (for data) with FC3, the system will lack transcoding software (easy solveable by installing a program, you guessed it, called transcode :)), and then use K3B to burn it. Again, I'm not an expert in this regard (maybe if I had a DVD burner I would be :)).
Jay
Gian.
