Another linux question

Your problem is that you're expecting a windows clone. And like so many others before you realized - Linux is none.
If you don't want to abandon Cool Edit you've to stick with Windows. Or use Wine, VMWare, etc. to get it running. But that's not what Linux was built for.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by PiccoloNamek

I wasn't expecting a Windows clone. I what I wasn't excpeting was having to use such laborious and roundabout measures to do simple program installs with a Linux distro that is supposed to be extra newbie friendly.

See, your problem is that you're too windows bound. For the native linux user these 'simple program installs' are a breeze when working on the console. You're expecting that everything works by clicking some button. Trust if I say it's best for a 'newbie' (I really don't like that expression) to work only with console at the start. You learn a lot more than starting you linux career with a gfx interface.

Imagine someone using linux for his whole life. Now he wants to install some software package on windows. At first he does not find the package manager (nearly every linux distri has one), maybe he realizes he has to download the packages by hand from the net. This done he wonders about the strange method of mounting filesystem (C:, D: <- ???) while browsing the directories for this home-directory. Eventually he finds the exe he has downloaded, and double-clicks. After reading some serious bullshit about license, etc. the install ends and the poor guy tries to execute the application, but where to find the right icon to click?? (at least he learnt to click everything *g*)
You see, it's also hard for the linux guys to understand windows.

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There is a stable tool, named ntfsresize (part of the ntfsprogs package) that you can use to resize you ntfs filesystems. Do this and after that create another ext3/reiserfs/xfs/your_choice_of_linux_fs on the free space. Than you mount the new FS and voila, more diskspace directly usable within linux.

cya
liquid

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

You should point out that's your point of view - because I think a lot of linux users would state the contrary. Try Gentoo next time - it's a lot harder to install (not using the newer gui-guided install method, but the old one), but you learn a lot about the system internals and how configuring the system to your needs. And if you finished install and config it simply works

Sad to hear you scrapped it...

cya
liquid

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

A fix for your suspend problem. Before suspending, shutdown the sound system (mostly ALSA) und unload the kernel modules for the soundchip/soundcard. This can be done by script. Then on resume you only have to reload the modules and restart the sound subsystem.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Couldn't have said it better myself *g*
Thx Magic

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