Are there any opensource software programs to help with these tasks...

[Goddess_of_Linux]

Lately, I have been having to use windows because I need to use the following programs:

a bowling game (just for fun)
a checkers and chess game (to learn to play both of them better for a tournament coming soon.)
pinball (just for fun)
just got an 8-button mouse and want to use all the buttons
Quicktime player (to play the .mov files my online teacher posts)
IE because Firefox doesn't seem to display the private website she gave us to use well
Windows Media Player to play some wmv files and wma files

Are there any open source programs and software to help with this? Especially so I can run linux...

[endersshadow]

1. Not that I found in a quick search of the repositories
2. sudo apt-get install gtkboard
3. sudo apt-get install pinball
4. Don't know off hand
5. You need multimedia codecs: http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/PLF
6. Would have to run IE in Wine. What, pray tell is the site not doing?
7. Same as #5: http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/PLF

[ltmon]

- Quicktime and WMV... see: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RestrictedFormats

- All games... see: http://happypenguin.org. Also search the games forum right here.

- IE: ouch... try and get your teacher to use web standards :) Oh, ok then, if you insist you could try using Wine, which is a compatability layer for windows programs. Try a search for wine on these forums, I'm pretty sure there's a number of "HOWTO" documents.

[linbetwin]

Some sites block browsers other than Firefox, it's not that FF cannot display them. You need to have FF identify as IE (there's an extension for that, but I forgot what it's called).

[aysiu]

You need to have FF identify as IE (there's an extension for that, but I forgot what it's called). It's called User Agent Switcher.

If you really need IE, though, there's something called IEs4Linux that is extremely easy to install, as long as you have already installed cabextract and wine.

[Goddess_of_Linux]

I didn't know about the user agent switcher for linux... (but then that's why Netscape 8.0 would ask me if I wanted to trust a site, if I said yes it would IE engine to display that site).

Thanks all for the other programs... I am in a really bad pickle since we are doing exams and I am behind on like 3 or 4 projects for 2 classes. This is going to be one heck of an all nighter...

Well, let me get those thing configured and up and running and get back start on this thanks...

College you got to love it...