On Tue, 01 Jun 1999, Andrew J Fortune wrote: > > ...and talking about EMails, can anyone give me any leads on the best way I > ccan connect to the Net in Linux, surf the Net, send/receive EMails, > participate in Chat programs etc. ? > > I'm experienced in W95, but I am only starting out in the world of Unix > (...a whole new world), so if any responses could be in layman's terms I > would be grateful :) >
My personal preference is KDE. DEBs are at http://snowcrash.tdyc.com/ This was my way of installing (as a relative newbie): You need to modify /etc/apt/sources.list to include the line: deb http://snowcrash.tdyc.com/debian slink rkrusty go into dselect and select "update", then exit. # dpkg --list kde* to see them Use # apt-get install filename and install kdesupport0g first, then kdebase, then every other package starting with "kde". Finally # apt-get install kdm Modify /etc/X11/window-managers so that "/usr/bin/kde" is first in the list. Reboot. There's lots of other DEBs. Try # dpkg --list k* to see them. Once you have KDE going, you will find it very Win95-like, and kppp is the easiest way of all to setup for the Internet. You don't even need netscape, as kfm the file manager is a good web browser, and kmail does email. Regards, Barry Kauler