Larry: He is talking about Free as in Freedom and Open Code. You and I meant Free as in Free Beer on that one. Opera is not Open Source, it is adware. He is absolutely correct on that one. I get caught with that difference a lot. I am looking at Pheonix. I had heard of it, but did not know there was a Windoze version of it.
Doug --- Larry Braud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net ===== 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
