[ubuntu-in] New to uBuntu

[Jayesh @ Bangalore]

Roshan, Parthan and Ravi Kumar,

Thanks for replying me with the answer I required.

Now few more question to answer which also will support me.

I am using windows as of now and want to install linux (uBuntu) in one 
seperate partition and later after 1 or 2 months when I will feel 
comfortable with linux, want to delete windows partition. Till the time 
(approx 1 or 2 months) i would like to work on windows while experimenting 
with linux.

Last time I tried to installed Cent OS (Linux flavor) on my Windows System 
in a seperate partition but it removed my windows files and my all the data 
files in my system but this time I will not be able to afford to lose my 
data files on windows and I would also like to be flexible to run windows 
files in linux. I have heard before that is very much possible but I do not 
have any clue how to ?

I would also like to have flexibility to use the same files in windows and 
linux. I mean to say, suppose i am not much comfortable with uBuntu in few 
days, what ever files I will create in uBuntu should run on windows so that 
I can remove uBuntu and try another flavor or linux like SUSE or Fedora. So 
how to gain this flexibility ?

Can you give me list of Linux Flavors:

1. Red Hat Linux
2. Fedora ( based on Red Hat Technologies )
3. Debian Linux
4. uBuntu ( based on Debian Technologies )
5. SUSE Linux ( based on ??? )
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.

Out of these flavors, which flavors are suitable for enterprise use instead 
of just ordinary desktop use.

Which is better ?

I have PIII 733 MHz System with 128 MB Ram and 80 GB HDD, so which will suit 
best to this configuration and which will be the second, third, forth best 
OS for this configuration ?

I would also like to know if any body are based in Bangalore in this mailing 
list whom I can talk offline as well.

Regards
Jayesh @ Bangalore

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roshan" <d_rosh2001 at yahoo.co.in>
To: "Jayesh @ Bangalore" <jayeshatbangalore at gmail.com>; "Ubuntu India Local 
Community" <ubuntu-in at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2007 3:07 PM
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-in] New to uBuntu


> --- "Jayesh @ Bangalore" wrote:
>
>> I want to shift from windows platform to linux
>> (ubuntu) platform permanently.
>>
>> As of now I use following applications in windows
>> for my day to day activity:
>>
>> MS Office
>> Microsoft Outlook (Email Client)
>> Mozilla Firefox (Web Browser)
>> Messengers (Yahoo, MSN, ICQ, IRC)
>> Photoshop
>> FTP Client
>> MP3, CD and DVD Audio and Video Player
>
> A list of equivalents are listed at the following
> websites.
> (URL may be long, so if it breaks, copy paste it)
>
> 1.
> http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Linux_software_equivalent_to_Windows_software
>
> 2. http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html
> (comparatively comprehensive)
>
> 3.
> http://db.glug-bom.org/wiki/index.php/Linux_Brochure#Applications_in_Linux_based_distribution_.2F_GNU.2FLinux_equivalent_to_Windows
>
> Hope these help.
>
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