Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote:
Quanta is great for HTML editing (not WYSIWYG though, which is better educationally) - one Vatsala's work areas.I have just given Vatsala 5 SuSE CD's and shown him a little of it on a working box.
He is going to take up Nick's offer of help this evening.
Nick, (Robert telling Grandma how to suck eggs), use YaST, Network Devices, Modem to hopefully simply detect and install the modem (hasn't failed for me yet on two different winmodems), then to dial up use the in-built mechanisms like Internet>Dial Up>Kinternet (once again, worked for me).
Also I suggest installing Mozilla which will give him Mozilla Composer for his GUI web page editor. Quanta is also on the CD's I think but I have never used it so do not know anything about it.
It is probably the "KDE" (component) that got Vatsala's system messed up. There were KDE libraries to download with Quanta for Ubuntu Gnome. This will be a more seamless program selection on SuSE's KDE, with YaST.
Thanks for your valuable time in going there in person Nick.
Regards,
Robert
-----Original Message-----
From: yuri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 4 November 2004 11:41 a.m.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Ubuntu problem...
On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 11:41:18 +1300, eBhakta wrote:
don't mind to give SuSE a go, and see how it does with the hardware...etc.
May do better with GUI dial-up also... (still haven't figured/configured
I would definitely recommend SuSE, Mandrake or Fedora for a first time linux user. The ubuntu/debian/gentoos of the world are not designed for people who are still learning linux, IMHO.
Yuri
A case in point.
Regards,
Rik.
