Ben, a number of us have Mandrake 8.2 CD's that we're happy to share; the software is free, you pay for packaging, harcopy manuals (not very useful IMO), and sometimes support... There are a number of updates that I'm sure you'd enjoy, in 8.2. Aside from that, congrats!!! I also wanted to mention that if your internet connection is always-on, you'll want to audit the services that mandrake runs by default, and turn off all the shtuff you don't want: NFS, telnet, ftp, etc... Also, "gv" is a package that displays PDFs in a similar manner to xpdf, but it has a much nicer interface... I'm guessing you went with the mandrake default of using KDE as opposed to Gnome -- you can still use Gnome applications if you have the libraries installed. Is this your first linux install? Oh, another recommendation: OpenOffice. See http://openoffice.org as the latest version is awesome, it shares code with StarOffice, but is *totally* free... cheers!
On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 18:14, Ben Huot wrote: > I installed Linux Mandrake 8.1 which I got at Borders. It detected my > printer, Apollo 2250 fine although I haven't checked the cd burner or the > internet connection. Konquerer works well with pdf files - it lauches xpdf > fine. When I get ink, I can test the printer better. > > Kword doesn't do frames the same as Corel Draw - you can't connect frames > together - it just overflows to another page. > > I really like Abi Word though and I have it on windows too. It actually > makes individual line breaks, so my poetry comes out single space. No more > coding html by hand. I can also make documents for my Palm. And I don't have > to use Lotus WordPro anymore for on the fly spell check - that is included > too. > > Mandrake graphical install goes slow though on a Pentium 200 with 48mb RAM. > I tried choosing the packages individually, but the CUPS server gave > problems, so I just went back to the default packages. > > Ben > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- -- Ben Barrett Software & Systems Engineer counterclaim Phone: 541.484.9235 Fax: 541.484.9193
