publicenemyno968 said:
- Hoast web pages, what software do i need + how do i set it up so i can get a www. (static IP address, Linksys WAG54G gateway with some basic DDNS stuff)
Code:
sudo apt-get install apache2
If you want to know more about apache, the world's most popular web server, there are
plenty of resources online to help you out. Google is your friend. :) You might want to narrow the search results to those that apply specifically to Debian, since Ubuntu is basically a n00b version of Debian running Gnome (no offence to anyone) :)
publicenemyno968 said:
- share a folder onto a windows network [to copy files to for backups]
Code:
sudo apt-get install samba
sudo apt-get install smbfs
Samba is a really great way to share files with Windows systems (in fact, it is 250% faster than actual Windows file & print sharing). It's secure, granularly configurable, and works alongside the existing Unix file permissions in Linux! Another Ubuntu fan out there has written a brief
writup about Samba on Ubuntu, but like Apache, it's an extremely popular service about which there's plenty of documentation online.
publicenemyno968 said:
- run Steam [windows app] so i can start a dedicated server for Counter-Strike (source) for the clan
Actually, you don't need to run any Windows apps to run a dedicated CS server. You'd be surprised how many game servers out there are running on Linux. Get the dedicated Linux server binaries
here. As for the documentation on how to do it, I think you can guess what I'm gonna say... :P
publicenemyno968 said:
also i need a linux driver for a GF 4 mx440 (its "chopy" when i viewing web pages)
You could try what
this guy is suggesting. If you're talking about hardwareforums.com rendering slow in Firefox on Linux, I am also experiencing the same problem. It has something to do with the JAVA implementation on Linux and how it works with Firefox. It helps a bit to update to the latest version of JAVA, but it's still slow. Ironically enough, HWF seems to be the only page I have trouble with at all (that I know of).
publicenemyno968 said:
...and how do i run windoze apps in linux? [where do i get the emulators],
There are no "emulators",
per se, but there are API compatability layers such as WINE, Cedega, and XOver Office that can trick Windows apps into think they're running on Windows. This works with differing degrees of success, depending on the app you want to run. Cedega is a commercial (but inexpensive) package who's focus is gaming. Check out their
game database to see if the games you want to run will work well or not. WINE is a totally free general purpose API compatability layer which can run may day to day apps. They also have an
Apps. database. Finally there's XOver Office another commercial app, which unsurprisingly runs MS office [perfectly] in Linux. It's been reported by many companies who use it that they actually get better performance out of MS office on Linux than in Windows. Weird.
Anyway, hope this has been helpful. For Ubuntu-specific questions,
this seems to be a pretty good resource. For everything else, anything which applies to Debian will also likely apply to Ubuntu. As with everything though, it's always best to use native Linux programs whenever possible rather than trying to run Windows binaries.
-AT
