for some of the noobs out there.

Any suggestions?

What about that?

I installed, but I'm not that familiar with Linux, so I got beat much more than have accomplished anything....

Anyway, I have been for like 7 months without PC, since Januar mine broken and I just have bought the PS3, so totally out of cach. I used the PS3 linux, both Fedora early and then Yellow Dog (waaaaaay better, since it's made for the PS3).

I really have used it for browsing web, listen music, see videos (the few formats that Yellow Dog have support by the time, don't know now), chating on MSN (even with camera) and for another normal application.

I only have installed one SNES emulator and it runs OK, not great, but OK.

I have come back to PC at the moment my sister have a new notebook and lend me her old one. The problem is that I run Guitar Player, and AutoCad here sometime and don't have really find way to put those in PPC Linux... And I also need a Word, cause all my graduation works have to be in Times New Roman or Arial fonts. You can have equal for OpenOffice, but you really will need sometime to test if this is really equal (many user created fonts said to be, but they are not), test sizes, to put this in alignment and see if turn out to be equal on both system... My university is pretty inflexible about getting a formatation that fallow ABNT (brazilian organ for publishising standards) guidelines, since they publishise many of our works. They even obligate us to subimit some works to book editors to get any typo.

But still, I make it to fooled they for 7 months, with the help of my Metodology teacher that uses Linux for sometime now. Still, if you really need some compability with Microsoft formats for your work or whatever, or if you need too userfriendly system, linux can be somewhat screwed...

But, you can install Wiondows XP inside Linux, and than have Windows in your PS3... Still this will get too much memory and will not run that great... But back when I test, we could only take on half the memory, maybe now, with this hackers work, we can have better results in sometime.

@bishop-br

Open Office has support for Times New Roman, you just need to find the package.

Gnome-look.org has it. If you look under fonts, you'll find something called MS True Type core fonts. That'll lead you in the right direction.

You could also copy the font files from Word and place them in the proper font directory on linux. I think that would work.

Regarding the other stuff, I'm sorry but I don't have any suggestions. I've used linux before, but I'm not that familiar with it.

I've had a NES/SNES emulator called SNESX9 installed on my PS3 through YDL for over half a year now and i've played a ton of games on my PS3 including Mario Kart, all of the Mario Brothers games, Castlevania, Zelda (one of my faves) and a lot of others. Oh yeah, Chrono Trigger! Seriously, it helped me out during the summer game drought.

Yeah man, that start was tough... I was playing too many PS2 and SNES games to the point I get confused if have made the right choice... It later turn out to be the right one, but still, wasn't waste of money since I get PC-in-a-room and BD Player (already had one HD-DVD before) from day one, and it made may way to that all glorious hometheater I want and would have just to wait few months (hail Ninja Gaiden Black, before was just Resistance and Motorstorm over and over again) for some great games...

EDIT: Ops... Ninja Gaiden Sigma.