Hi all I am a new user. I am currently need some ergent help. I am required by my local university, or collage as you guys in us call it to use dos, linux and windows for a operating systems and programming paper. I have been getting conflicting reports however on distrobutions. One person someware else told me fedora core3 with gnopernicus, yasr, flite and openoffice are good. At the same time I heard oralux is good. And debian is good. Obviously, I can't try all and I have a time constraoints before course starts, etc. So whats best? Take in mind I only have a slow connection and so have employed others to do the linux cd downloads. Of those I have fedora core, and oralux. I have no time to get debian. I need to ask a few questions. 1. What is a good boot manager. 2. I know auralux does not right to ntfs but does fedora? Is there a way I could have linux loaded on the same system as windows xp,? And if possible Instead of using a boot manager could I bee able to start linux from a program group in windows, that is have something that would shutdown windows and start linux from windows. For software I have everything. IN this course I will also bee using dos. Is it therefore easier to have a seperate machine for dos or is the windows xp console suffishient, or is it better to have a dos emulator from within linux and therefore whats best? Now even if I choose fedora, and or auralux I will ergently need some tutorials for both systems, installation guides,etc. Manuals for speech synths etc. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list