Hi Paul (and others as well :)
I have used WordPerfect since the old DOS days and it does things
no other wordprocessor does and since I am used to it and like all the
bells and whistles, it is like an old friend in Linux to me :) And it was
free for non-commercial use. Very nice graphical installation as well.
But AbiWord sounds like a cool alternative for someone with low disk
space or if someone doesn't want or need all the bells and whistles.
As far as Netscape goes, I am using a very stable (compared to 4.7's
Java nightmares) 128-bit version of 4.72. It works well. I just really
dislike
the look, and the colors of the icons that they have not changed since
I used
Netscape last, years ago. I dislike that I can't change it's color scheme to
a more
appealing setup. Like right now, writing email, EVERYTHING (except the
subject line and address line and icons) is gray! I don't want that.
If you change the colors, it only changes certain things and all the rest
stays gray. Then it look even funnier. So I am back to the defaults.
I tried to change the fonts in Netscape before my last install of Linux, and
I
couldn't get back into Linux...something about not being able to find the
font server
or something like that. Coincidental? So I am leaving it alone for now,
till I learn
more about it and what fonts I can change to without causing problems.
BTW: Netscape says that there is a 4.73 version of the 128-bit available,
anyone tried it yet?
Anyway, on to Festival. Festival is a cool speech recognition engine
for Linux. Jim (on his RedHat 6 Linux box) has it saying the time in a
british voice, opening his browser, inserting his email address on forms,
etc. Very cool program. I used MS Agent technology extensively in
Windoze, so I would like to use Festival. But it won't run on my machine.
Here's the URL for Festival: http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/
if you would like to take a look at it yourself.
Much of it is command line, but you can use the terminal to build and test,
then create shortcuts to run. Plus it can go get news on the internet,
and read it to you, with a program that someone wrote for Festival.
All kinds of stuff out there for Festival.
Well, that is enough from Southside Virginia for tonight.
Have a good one.
Bambi
Paul wrote:
> 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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