Can you recommend one?
I've gotten beyond the linux/utf-8 interface. Thanks. SuSE works the best. I
can create utf-8 html, using mozilla and gedit, no problem (well, konquerer
does not work with variable pitch fonts, so I cant enlage the text. I get this
teeny-weeny bitmapped font. mozilla does not remember my position on the page,
so when I press refresh, it starts at the beginning, and I've got to page down
by hand, but the mozilla fonts look great: the refresh operation works as you
would expect (like Internet Explorer) but the font is too small. Is there an IE
for linux?)
But now I've got questions which do not relate to utf-8. You guys are so good,
I thought I'd ask, anyway.
1) Winmodem/Linux. Back in 2001, this was not supported. The news was all bad.
Has anything changed? Does the modem show up as a device special file? How do I
get a driver for my SuSE? I was thinking of installing a copy of XP on the
debian partition, just to use my internal modem. This might be the most elegant
solution.
2) My Linux Media Player, Kaffeine, does not play dvds, nor is it connected to
my sound card (but other players work, so I know the card is linked to the
kernel) and, curiously enough, Kaffeine worked fine on SuSE 9.0, in fact
Kaffeine was the only one that did. When I put a dvd in the drive I would
expect something to happen, automatically. Is there a file I start by hand? I
can view image files, no sound, but I can't tell from the directory list which
file represents the movie.
Sorry to be a such bother. Linux is a great platform for experimenting,
programming, typing, serving, but as a desktop?
I know about open source, and don't expect perfection, but I would never have
imagined it would be this difficult. Some programs work, others don't, some
distros work, others don't.
I belived the press when they say Linux is the operating system of the future.
What Linux where they referring to?
Elvis
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