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Asked by soylentgreen

Hello am new to Unbuntu so be gentle with me. Having uses XP for many years now I dont intend to move to vista or windows 7 I ntend to move to Linux however I love foobar and imgburn dvd shrink etc, my qustion is will these applications run on Unbutu.

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Vojtěch Trefný (vojtech.trefny) said : 		#1

Maybe, try install them via Wine -- https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wine

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fenderuser (akula) said : 		#2

You could try this, (though not tried it myself)
http://www.mrbass.org/linux/ubuntu/dvdshrink/

Alternatively you could install XP with Virtualbox and run that in Ubuntu and try installing your programs within your XP virtualbox. I have installed XP within Ubuntu and it works very well. About the only thing so far I have not managed to get to properly work is Nero.

I find nowadays that it is so rare to use anything that is Windows, there is usually a Linux equivalent that does the job (I am not a game player though).

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datatec (datatec) said : 		#3

Yes many of these work through wine.
I would suggest using wine 1.0 or above.

I have tested
DVD Shrink
DVD Decrypter
imgburn
DVD Flick

They all worked properly

I have heard that foobar works, but haven't tried it

links talking about it
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=562618
http://www.wine-reviews.net/applications/foobar2000-on-linux-with-wine.html

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