Working With Ubuntu 8.10 for Windows Users

I got ubuntu 8.10 installed in my system a few months ago.I found it diffucult to play and some vedio files and play some popular games on ubuntu.


Here are some tweaks around ubuntu which makes it easier for windows users

Vlc media player

Open the terminal and type the following command and first you need to be in root to do so

kiran@ubuntu:~$ su
Password:
or

kiran@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install VlC Vlc-plugin-esd
password:

This will install vlc in few seconds if you have a fast net connection.

Booting windows and linux on differnet hard disks


Generally and after you install windows in one hard disk and ubuntu in another,at the boot prompt it should give the option which os it should run. For this you need to alter grub file present in ubuntu.
Open the terminal and type the following commands
kiran@ubuntu:~$ cd /boot/grub
kiran@ubuntu:/boot/grub$ sudo cp menu.lst lst_backup
kiran@ubuntu:/boot/grub$ gksudo gedit menu.lst

type the following in geditor which will be already opened

### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
title Windows XP
root (hd1,0)
savedefault
makeactive
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
chainloader +1
### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
now when you reboot it will give option

Using wine

Wine helps to play windows games it helps to execute the .exe files
but games that require directx doesn't work as linux uses differnt graphic engine

counter strike works proplery

with wine you can install any windows application