On Sun, 04 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> Hey All:
>
> I'm wanting suggestions for "Best Of" type of Internet Utilities.
>
> I currently use Agent Newsreader, Pegasus Email, Cute Ftp or WsFtp, ICQ, and
> Netscape Browser in Windows 98 Second Edition (or 98SR2 depending on
> who you talk to... ;-) )
>
This is a tall order, because everyone has different preferences.
For Agent, which is what I prefer under Windows also, I would either use the
latest version of pan or use wine & agent. Pan is still very much in
development and does not have all of the features that are in Agent. If you use
wine, Agent is one of the few programs that work as well under Linux as it did
under windows.
Under windows I was a Eudora user, and prefer kmail under Linux. I never used
Pegasus, so I won't comment on how close kmail compares to it.
For Cute Ftp, use either gftp (a gnome program) or Igloo, both are very similar
to cute-ftp. Igloo is a bit closer than gftp, but Igloo is a commercial
product, while gftp is gpl'd.
I never used ICQ under Windows and have not tried any of the available clones
for Linux, so no comment here either.
There is a Linux version of Netscape. Not as many available plugins however.
Many folks seem to have stability problems with it, I found that if I use the
navigator only version (no email/news) it works very well. Using the
communicator version (with all of the other extras) seems to crash a lot.
--
Alex
(Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
