Hello Jim,
Thursday, August 11, 2005, 11:31:55 AM, you wrote:

JP> I was thinking that the next step was to use GNOME, only this install
JP> doesn't seem to have it. I have to open the install disk to see if GNOME
JP> is there.

>> With Firefox and Opera as my primary Internet browsers, I use
>> Konqueror primarily as a file tree, although I do perform a small
>> amount of HTML editing with it, because that is convenient.

JP> See my above about GNOME.

Gnome and KDE are just X-Windows Desktop environments... either one...
or any other of the numerous GUI desktops will be able to run
Thunderbird, Opera, Firefox, etc.

Personally, I like KDE. I have Gnome installed as well, and on my
laptop, I have a low-resource desktop called TWM, that's not as much
of a RAM pig, as KDE or Gnome.

>> KMail is the equivalent of a vintage Windows 3.1 MUA. It has been
>> replaced by better tools. It still exists, is all.

JP> Well, Suse 8.1 is not exactly ancient.

It doesn't matter. A lot of the apps on your Suse box are ancient,
like vi, cat, sh, csh, ksh, etc. They still work, and serve a purpose,
so they remain.

JP> Wow, I still have a 98SE disk but haven't installed it lately. Haven't
JP> used CompuServe in a coons age. :-)

I've had a CompuServe account since the mid-1980's. I'll probably hang
onto it even now that I have DSL.

JP> Yes, the term 'obsolete' is overused.

JP> If it still works and it serves your needs it isn't obsolete. Unless  
JP> of course you need support and/or can't fix it yourself. :-)

I do Ok fixing (or kludging) things myself... house, car (when I owned
one), electric appliances, computers, etc.

Duct tape is my friend.

 
-wittig
website: http://www.robertwittig.com/
weblog: http://robertcwittig.blogspot.com/
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