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<pre wrap="">On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Anthony Passonno <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:passonno@gmail.com"><passonno@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hi there,
I have been(not currently) a Linux user for probably the better part of ten
years, off and on, and I would like to request some assistance.
I am a musician, and as such, require that my pro audio external card work
well, and at all supported bitrates.
I am currently running a retail copy of Windows 7 Home Premium, but am at
the point where I am tired of fighting. Here's the issue: I have an
external hd, which I use to store music, movies, backups, and my own
musical creations. Every time I attempt to copy files to one folder or
another, I am required to answer a UAC prompt, or frankly ANY file
operations. To say that the Windows security model is obscure would be an
understatement, as many times today I was wishing I could just open an
xterm and chmod everything to 777 and be done with it.
So, my humble request is thus: I enjoy using Linux(prefer Ubuntu) as an
everyday OS, but I need to be able to use a few different win32 programs
that I would not want to relegate to Wine(and I don't think they would work
well anyway).
I would need help coming up with a plan, possibly including winxp seamless
mode or something in vmware.
Any advice?
Thanks,
Anthony Passonno
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MAY be what you're looking for.
However I highly recommend demoing Linux off of a live cd first so
that you can get an idea for how well your hardware is supported.
Unless you have a /lot/ of memory you won't get typical performance,
but you should be able to see if your hardware works, or more easily
obtain a list of your hardware (lspci and lsusb come standard and
produce easy to read output; there are other programs that do similar
things under windows, but I can't remember them off the top of my
head).
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First off let me make a correction, you will get a typical or even
better performance with the some ram, 512-1024 MB of PC1600 or better
does me just fine. In fact I just boosted up to 1.5 GB of ddr-333 and
saw no performance difference, in fact my ram really never peaks over
600 MB. It's mainly the CPU that gets me. Just be prepared to have
'flash' in a web browser take up a lot more of your CPU... Compared to
a windows machine, no matter what flash I seem to use I can't get it to
decently treat my cpu. I digressed, anyways I only see a problem if
you have things like microphones, webcams or wireless internet, other
hardware always seems to have enough support as long as its a desktop
you are working off of. <br>
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