John, Opera is free. I have it and Mozilla on my desktop. Larry ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Hebert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 8:26 AM Subject: Re: [brlug-general] OT: Open Source Software for the college-bound freshman using Win98
> I know it may be too late, but InfoZip is free software > (http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/) and GSView > (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/index.htm) is a replacement for > Acrobat that is also free software. And as much as I like Opera, it is > not free software. :( Too bad Phoenix > (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/phoenix/phoenix-release-notes.html) is > not more mature. I've been having bad luck with Mozilla lately. > > John Hebert > > Doug Riddle wrote: > > My daughter is leaving for college, major unknown as of yet. I am > > relaoding her PC, a P-200, 128 MB RAM, 6.5 Gig HDD. > > > > She wants Windows as the OS. College is hard enough without fighting > > the OS, so who cares. I have ten or fifteen legal copies of Win98 > > and Win95 around. I am more interested in the software than the OS. > > > > I loaded the AVG virus scanner and updated it. > > I installed winzip, Acrobat, Gimp, Open Office, and Opera. > > > > What am I missing? > > > > If your kid was leaving for college, what Open Source app would you > > NOT want to forget. I have until about 11:00 AM Monday, 01/20/2003 > > to do the installs. I am on broadband, so download time is trivial. > > > > I appreciate any suggestions. Especially about Open Source firewalls > > for Windows. She will be one a campus dial-up, so I doubt it will be > > a big deal, but if anyone knows of one... > > > > > > > > ===== > > Warmest Regards, > > > > Doug Riddle > > http://www.dougriddle.com > > http://fossile-project.sourceforge.net/ > > http://www.libranet.com > > -- "Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the Peoples' Liberty Teeth." - George Washington -- > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > -- > John Hebert: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > System Engineer: I T Group, Inc. http://www.it-group.com 225.922.4535 > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
