On Sat, 13 May 2000, Fran Parker wrote:
Hi Bambi (and others),
>Yes, it will be good when people think that Linux is a viable option to
>Windoze. Some do now, but not enough. Some programs aren't even done
>for the Mac yet. (I wonder if that should tell us anything :)
HAhahahahaha!!! That is so true!!
>I will be glad when Corel comes out with their Ventura for Linux.
Then I hope for you that you do not have to wait too long!
>their Ventura this summer, can't wait. I am using their WP8 for Linux
I use a very simple wordprocessor called AbiWord. Not too many bells and
whistles, does just what I need :) The entire download is something like
1 meg! (interested people, go to http://www.abisource.com)
>Basically we tricked Linux into using the ISAPNP config stuff for part
>of the configuration and then disabled the PnP in bios and it found the
>modem properly and all works great.
Hahaha!! That is so cool, huh? You can't do that with windows. Everything
is registry, and that is lethal.
>The real problem there is that the last time I booted into Windoze that
>has the same settings as Linux for the sound card, it changed something
>in the bios, even though it is not allowed to, then I had no sound but
>still had modem in Linux. So there we were back at it again, with the
>boot down, enable PnP, boot up, ISAPNP config, boot down and up, verify
>sound works, then boot down, delete ISAPNP config, boot up and change
>bios to no PnP and let it configure the modem. So as you can see I am a
>little leary of going back into Windoze even though I need to.
Okay, that makes sense. Not nice though... I have always hated internal
modems. Just give me a serial cable sticking out the COM2 port, let me
plug a small box to it. That is REAL plug and play!
>I was disappointed that I couldn't get festival to work on my machine
>even though the sound card works for everything else. It works well on
>Jim's RedHat Linux box...but I install it and it won't work. I don't
>get it.
Now you got me cornered. What is Festival?
>Oh, well ....all in good time. I have only been in Linux for about 3
>weeks now. I love it, but really dislike Netscrappy :) But I really
>haven't found a viable option that does at least what Netscrappy does
>do. The look is yukky to me.
What version do you have? I have 4.72 here, it's been pretty good so
far. Okay, it hangs itself once in a while. I have tried NCSA Mosaic, but
never got the program to run. It just won't start, no matter how chmod +x
I tell it to be.
>But through all of this I have learned quite a bit. And will continue.
Sounds so familiar!
Paul
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