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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Newbie Post 14135 by PxT on Monday 28th of January 2002 04:19:50 PM
Old 01-28-2002
Generally speaking, anything you can do on Windows, you can do using Linux, and to a lesser extent other versions of Unix. Recommend purchasing a good introductory book on the subject. Check the FAQ section for some recommendations.

If you are experienced with Windows you should have no problem installing one of the major Linux distributions such as Mandrake or RedHat.

Netscape exists for Linux and other versions of Unix. Several other web-browsers are also available. Linux has KWord, AbiWord and more which resemble MS Word closely. There are also dozens of alternatives for playing MP3's (just as there are within Windows). Chekcout www.freshmeat.net to find lots of good Unix software.


HTH
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

os_type

os_type(3alleg4)						  Allegro manual						  os_type(3alleg4)

NAME

       os_type - Stores the detected type of the OS. Allegro game programming library.

SYNOPSIS

       #include <allegro.h>

       extern int os_type;

DESCRIPTION

       Set by allegro_init() to one of the values:

	  OSTYPE_UNKNOWN    - unknown, or regular MSDOS
	  OSTYPE_WIN3	    - Windows 3.1 or earlier
	  OSTYPE_WIN95	    - Windows 95
	  OSTYPE_WIN98	    - Windows 98
	  OSTYPE_WINME	    - Windows ME
	  OSTYPE_WINNT	    - Windows NT
	  OSTYPE_WIN2000    - Windows 2000
	  OSTYPE_WINXP	    - Windows XP
	  OSTYPE_WIN2003    - Windows 2003
	  OSTYPE_WINVISTA   - Windows Vista
	  OSTYPE_OS2	    - OS/2
	  OSTYPE_WARP	    - OS/2 Warp 3
	  OSTYPE_DOSEMU     - Linux DOSEMU
	  OSTYPE_OPENDOS    - Caldera OpenDOS
	  OSTYPE_LINUX	    - Linux
	  OSTYPE_SUNOS	    - SunOS/Solaris
	  OSTYPE_FREEBSD    - FreeBSD
	  OSTYPE_NETBSD     - NetBSD
	  OSTYPE_IRIX	    - IRIX
	  OSTYPE_DARWIN     - Darwin
	  OSTYPE_QNX	    - QNX
	  OSTYPE_UNIX	    - Unknown Unix variant
	  OSTYPE_BEOS	    - BeOS
	  OSTYPE_MACOS	    - MacOS
	  OSTYPE_MACOSX     - MacOS X

SEE ALSO

       allegro_init(3alleg4), os_version(3alleg4), os_multitasking(3alleg4)

Allegro 							   version 4.4.2						  os_type(3alleg4)
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