Welkom
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> Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Namens Terry
> Verzonden: vrijdag 30 maart 2001 16:59
> Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Onderwerp: [newbie] Brand spanking new!
>
>
> Greetings everyone,
>
> I am brand new to the world of Linux. I just happened
> to be at Walmart at 11:00 at night (is there any other
> good time to be at Walmart? lol), and came across the
> last box of LM 7.2 Complete. It looked really cool on
> the bac of the box, so I thought, "What the heck?"
Welkom to the world of linux
> I'm glad I decided to get it. KDE is very cool, and
> most of the applications are more stable than Windows
> is. I haven't quite worked up the courage to face the
> straight text console yet, like I said, I'm brand new
> to Linux. I do have some questions though:
>
> 1. Is there a more feature-rich email application
> other than Kmail (preferrably something like Eudora?).
> Kmail does do almost everything I need it to, but
> just seems so "ho hum."
Balsa is very Eudora-like. It is surely include in your package.
You should surely take a look at the beta of 'Evolution', an
outlook-look-like client for Gnome (I use Gnome instead of KDE).
> 2. I can not get KDE upgraded from 2.0 up to 2.1.1.
> I've tried every suggestion from every website that I
> come across about upgrading the blasted thing, only to
> royally screw up KDE to the point where x won't even
> start. The console still worked, but since I don't
> know enough about it, I had to resort to blasting
> everything and starting all over.
Have you tried the Mandrake Updater? You'll find the upgrades there when
they are stable (you can also download development packages, but I wouldn't
do that ... yet).
> Thanks!
>
> Terry Sheltra
>
> Newbie Linux User
Greets,
C.
