Hi Stefani,
> thanks for the answer, but i think you are a little bit wrong. I am not a
> newbie, i still using linux since 7 years.
I don't think I said that, did I ? It probably simply because the shortness
of your suggestion and the shortness of my answers ;-)
> looks for mime.types and mailcap at first /usr/local/lib/netscape and then in
> the current home directory for .mime.types and .mailcap.
> The mime.types and maicap files in /usr/lib will be never accessed by netscape.
Ok, agreed to that. The question for me is, isn't mime.types not usually
in /etc ? At least on my older and actual system I have no netscape spezific
mailcap/mime.types. Of cource it's different if you want to create netscape
specific one which reside globally in /usr/lib/netscape. Anyway, these view
links won't hurt.
> > > found on ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/fonts/.
> >
> > Are they available anywhere as rpm ?
>
> Does the files have the ending rpm? I give you the answer - no!
You misunderstood me. ftp.gimp.org has nearly no available rpms, but
still many of the files are available elsewhere on the net as rpms.
That was more a general question. It's no problem to create them, but
it would save time if they were already created by someone.
> > Well I don't need this low resolutions so make it optional with one of
> > those drak tools which configure X. XF86Setup: Maybe you are using it
> > with XFree 4.0 ? I remember reading about problems with that. Try to
> > use a newer version of XFree4 then.
>
> Thats great, that you don't need this seetings, but maybe you are not the only
> user of mandrake linux.
Yes that's the reason why it should be made optional. Ask while installing
if the user wants to have low resolutions as well.
> > > Optimizing cdrom access by setting the dma and 32bit IO:
> > > /sbin/hdparm -q -c1 -q -d1 /dev/cdrom
> >
> > No, don't to this (at least not generally). Suppose you have a SCSI CDROM...
> > You can add such things to /etc/rc.local as a quick fix.
>
> Fine, your hardware conbfiguration is the only valid. And it is for every
> linux newbie the easiest way to do this in rc.local., to get the most
> performance. Haha...
Well I thought it as a quick fix for the power users. Of course there
should be a better solution for the newbies. After the configuration of
the cdrom driver. When the driver is a module, it's easy for kudzu to
add it to modules.conf. Otherwise I currently lack an idea where to put it
(except an startup script in /etc/rc.d).
> > > missing packages:
> > > -----------------
> > >
> > > There are some package missed in the gpl version, with are very important:
> >
> > [deleted]
> >
> > Many of them are not GPLish, i.e. no source code available. So if they
> > are included, they should only on an extra commercial cd (my suggestion).
> Half and half GPLished, like blender, povray, freepascak or broadcast 2000.
>
> Netscape is also not GPL. And some of this applications like StarOffice are
> currecntly very basic, until there is a open source software is available, with
> the same funcionality.
>
> > > A good .wav editor would bo also needed.
> >
> > Isn't one include with gnome/kde ?
>
> A good one... ;-)
Maybe ecasound/ecawave, but these are certainly not programs with ease of
use. Important is the possibility to edit big wav files (>128M for example).
It should not only support wav file editing btw. And mp3 editing would be
very great ;-) I think I have to dig a bit to find one.
Best regards,
Reinhard Katzmann
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