No, I used Linux for a few years and even have some clipart, manuals, and perl scripts I designed with it blessedforest.org/tech. I made an entire magazine with it blessedforest.org/mag.
I just don't have a car and it would be hard for me to haul my computer down to the meeting. I have plenty of money as I am a disabled veteran and don't mind paying to support Mandrake who has contributed so much to KDE and installers. Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Barrett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "euglug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 6:22 PM Subject: [EUG-LUG:2399] Re: Mandrake Linux install > 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
