Excellent...thanks for the heads up! Cleve
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 7:39 PM Subject: Re: [brlug-general] dual-booting W2K with Mandrake > At 05:55 PM 10/19/2002 -0600, you wrote: > > >I have actually narrowed down what exactly is keeping me from my jump to > >Linux completely. The VPN stuff, (VNC will probably not be a problem), > >cdburning (I understand that this should not be an issue....I've just never > >done it in Linux), finding a Linux replacement for the Webcam32 or CoffeeCup > >Webcam software that takes pictures of my dog "Jake" and ftp uploads them to > >his website (also, probably not an issue, I just haven't found a good > >replacement in the Linux environment yet, and also Mozilla's fonts and > >plugin issues. I followed the thread about using M.S.'s Truetype fonts so > >that is probably ok and the plugin thing probably has a solution out there > >too. > > I'm not sure about all of the distros, but under Mandrake, Lycoris and > Libranet, for sure, you can import M$ TT fonts, right from the desktop into > your Linux system. I've done it several time and it works great. I am also > fairly sure that there is a command line utility to accomplish this as > well. With regard to browser plugins, you may want to go to > www.codeweavers.com and look at their Crossover Office Plug-In utility. As > I understand it, it lets you run IE plugins on Linux browsers and its like > $25.00. > > Ed Richards > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://host19.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
