On Tuesday 2005.03.01 03:35:31 -0800, Elvis Presley wrote: > 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.
The Konqueror problem seems odd. Have you played around with all of the configuration settings? > 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 In both mozilla and Firefox, using "CTRL +" will enlarge the font, "CTRL -" will decrease the font size. Also of course you can set minimum font sizes in the preferences. You might try downloading and installing Firefox. It should work well on SuSE. > would expect (like Internet Explorer) but the font is too small. Is there an > IE > for linux?) You can run Windows programs like IE using the WINE emulator. The easiest, most hassle-free solution is to purchase a copy of Codeweaver's CrossOver Office (It can be purchased and downloaded via the web. You can also get a 30 day trial for free). Codeweaver's CrossOver Office is simply the open source WINE emulator with a nice GUI front end and installation scripts, plus Codeweaver's own customizations (which they put back into the open source WINE project eventually)). But I would not recommend using IE unless you really have a good reason too. Firefox/Mozilla should handle most needs. On the other hand, Wine/Crossover is extremely useful for running other Windows programs when certain functionality is not yet available in Linux (for example, Photoshop). > > 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. I once faced this problem a few years ago. I just went and bought a real modem and gave the winmodem to a friend who needed it (for Windows) instead. This saved me a lot of time. But maybe winmodems work now. I haven't followed up on it. > > 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. I have never had much luck with the KDE video players. On the other hand, I have never had any problem with Xine or with MPlayer when compiled from source code. When you compile from source code, you can include the DVD decryption stuff. MPlayer even provides prepackaged Windows and QuickTime codecs which you can download so that Mplayer can handle all of the WMF and QuickTime stuff (These are just the Windows .DLL dynamic link libraries. Mplayer (and possibly Xine also) are somehow capable of loading the proprietary binary dlls from Windows and using them directly on Linux. This is a very nice trick). > > Sorry to be a such bother. Linux is a great platform for experimenting, > programming, typing, serving, but as a desktop? Linux can be a great desktop once you have become technically proficient with Linux. To become proficient, start by learning how to compile and install the software you want from source code. Its not hard: generally just "./configure", "make", and "su -c 'make install' " will do the trick. The nice thing about compiling from source is that if you don't get any errors when compiling, then the software will really work as expected. Also, you can control what gets included or not included -- for example, if you want DVD decryption with Xine or Mplayer, you can have it (The commercial vendors won't provide binary packages with DVD decryption because of the legal issues). Compiling from source is a much more reliable way to get software to work on Linux. The RPM system is generally very deficient, although it is OK for installing RPMs that come directly from the Linux vendor (but absolutely useless for RPMs coming from arbitrary sources on the web). The Debian apt-get/synaptic system is far superior to RPMs, but still won't provide you everything you'll want, so it is worth learning to compile from source. Once you have mastered compiling and installing from source, and general configuration from the command line, you will likely find Linux a much more appealing system. > > 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 > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. > http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 > > -- > Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/ > > > -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
