Sabi ni Mon noong Fri, 19 May 2000 10:46:36 +0800
> hello. I am Mon Sagullo, owner of a desktop that suddenly refused to
> boot Win98, even after fdisking, reformatting and re-installing the
> thing. So now, having little time and money to get back to what I am
> doing, was *forced* to install my gathering-dust WalnutCreek Linux 6.2.
> When I first bought this Linux CD, I manage to run both Linux and Win98
> on my desktop with relative calm. Later on, I decided to uninstall
> Linux and went back to the *old ways.*
Hey Mon, nice to see you've finally gotten around to Linux. Enjoy the
experience.
> Since I am not a programmer per se, could you point me to a site for
> free productivity software for this thing? Barring Virra Mall (that's
> too far from Quezon province...) anywhere else where I can buy CDs with
> good collection of programs? Any suggestions on which bundle(s) are
> good?
Star Office is number one on the list. It's available locally too. As for the
nearest, most convenient place for you to look for Linux software, that would be
the southern part of the metropolis. There was mention on this list of Website
Computers, somewhere in Pqe if I recall rightly. Sorry I don't have the exact
address, it's somewhere in my PLUG folder, which is too large now for me to do a
search in the little time I have at the moment. Juan Miguel Cacho provided us
the address, maybe he can email you privately? Amigo, lo siento for putting you
on the spot ;-) but I couldn't think of an easier way to get the address.
> Another last - if I want to see how and where I am whenever I browse,
> can I do this in a console? And what can I use that came with the Linux
> 6.2 CD to do this?
lynx -- I don't know if your distro installs it by default. I do remember that
FreeBSD didn't, but I can't be too sure now.
> Is it *normal* that once in a while, while browsing, for Navigator to
> just *poof* out of nowhere? The thing just shuts down, bringing with it
> the Messenger (and my about to send mails).
Happens with Netscape on *all* platforms. Diff is that in Microsoft's poor
excuse of an OS, the entire OS becomes more unstable than it already is. Linux
stays up, barring any memory leaks that Netscape can be guilty of.
> Thanks and I hope Linux users are not grouchy as most people say they
> are. P^)
Who sez Linux people are grouchy ?!?! fsck them! Seriously, you'll find that
the spirit of sharing that made Linux what it is today permeates throughout not
only the Linux, but the whole open source community.
Mabuhay.
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