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Acer aspire 5553G linux

Asked by Henergy

I'm about to install the newest Linux Ubuntu on my Acer Aspire 5553G laptop. I'd like to know whether my laptop is compatible before doing so; here the specs of my laptop:

CPU: AMD Phenom™ II quad-core mobile processor N930 (2 MB L2 cache, 2 GHz, 1333 MHz FSB, 35 W)
Memory: 4 GB of DDR3 1066 MHz system memory
Graphics: AMD ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 & ATI Radeon HD 4250 (on-board)
Motherboard model: JV51_DN
AMD 785GX Chipset
Network adapters: - Atheros AR5B93 Wireless Network Adapter
                                    - Atheros AR8151 PCI-e Gigabit Ethernet Controller

Also I would like to know whether I can make AllPlan20xx and Autodesk applications such as Revit, AutoCAD, 3DS MAX, etc. work on Linux? If so, how? Wine and/or VirtualBox?

Cheers.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Run the liveCD, see what works and what doesn't work.

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Henergy (henergy+-) said : 		#2

Running the liveCD right now. As expected .exe files do not work. Installing VirtualBox now. Do I need to re/install the windows/based programmes with VirtualBox or can I open the .exe files directly?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Why do you need ANY exe files? They are for WIndows. Ubuntu is not WIndows, it is Linux....

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Henergy (henergy+-) said : 		#4

Quoting myself from the first message: "Also I would like to know whether I can make AllPlan20xx and Autodesk applications such as Revit, AutoCAD, 3DS MAX, etc. work on Linux? If so, how? Wine and/or VirtualBox?"

Mentioned softwares are unfortunately not compatible with Linux (yet). I'd like to make sure I can make them run on Linux before un-installing Windows.
VirtualBox is having a hard time booting from hard-disk. Hard to test it.

Also having problems with playing .mp3 files with the banshee media player.

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Henergy (henergy+-) said : 		#5

FATAL: No bootable medium found! System halted.

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Henergy (henergy+-) said : 		#6

Oh, I need to boot from a windows-CD the first-time.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#7

There are open equivelants to most windows apps. If you are just going to run WIndows in a VM, you may as well just use WIndows.

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Henergy (henergy+-) said : 		#8

Now I need to find out how to create a Windows-CD from back-up files, since I didn't get one when I purchased my laptop. Any help would be nice.

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Henergy (henergy+-) said : 		#9

I would only run windows in a VM in order to work with the above-mentioned programmes, because they are not compatible with Linux. To my knowledge there are no open-source equivalents as powerful as them. Although they are a minority of the programmes I use, they are of high priority for my studies.

I will create a windows-cd and try VirtualBox' functionality with the programmes.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#10

How do you mean create a Windows CD? Remember to not infringe on copyright. Ubuntu and Canonical do not support piracy i any form

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Henergy (henergy+-) said : 		#11

As I didn't receive a windows cd with my laptop, I will have to do a system back-up image, by default windows-only. I hope VB can boot windows from that image.