Re: Browsers and emailers [Was Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?]
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 01:07:29AM -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote IMHO move on to mozilla, unless there really is something showstopping holding you to netscrape. *shudder* have not used netscrape for many moons, didn't even know you could still get it? Still strong: :: Win: currently 7.2 Lin: currently 7.1 ... *shudder* ... :: 7.0 was *massively* better than any previous, 7.1 modestly-moderately better than 7.0 (In Win; haven't had Lin-Video up to my standards until just now with Gentoo.) I *need* all past email to remain in use, without any chance of loss or error, and I need all new email to go to the same place, and I bloody well intend, if possible, to use *one* tool to access all of it. Ditto bookmarks, eddresses, etc.. If Netscape/Linux won't share thusly with Netscape/Win, then I will be looking for something else in Linux, or both. Current thought has Opera for both as browser, and I have no email candidate yet -- *MUST* work same in both o/ss! Oh, and I have at least two mailboxes from two different providers, and Netscape handles both in the same screen. If Netscape will work share, there would have to be a very good reason to change. That said, I'm certainly willing to learn newer browse/mail tools for real advantage (but not for 'cooless' or 'religious' nonsense), but I absolutely *need* Win Lin to play nice by using one file-set for both's everything depending on which o/s I've booted into at any particular moment. Can Mozilla SHARE the Win/Netscape bookmarks, history, eddress-book, **and** local accumulated-mail folders with my Win/Netscape ? Feel free to jump in and educate me, Nick, folks! Well, since you asked... - Netscape up to and including version 4.x was proprietary software with abysmal spaghetti code. - Netscape 6 and onwards *IS* Mozilla. Specifically, it's an AOL-branded Mozilla 1.x distro, complete with AOL's AIM and other AOL garbage, which you may not want. The only problem I expect is that you may not be able to have both installed simultaneously due to the fact that they have the vast majority of their files the same. You should be able to copy stuff back and forth. They're the same programs. I don't see any problems other than copying pure text files between linux and Windows; LF versus CRLF. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] An infinite number of monkeys pounding away on keyboards will eventually produce a report showing that Windows is more secure, and has a lower TCO, than linux. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Browsers and emailers [Was Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?]
On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 01:07 -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote: Can Mozilla SHARE the Win/Netscape bookmarks, history, eddress-book, **and** local accumulated-mail folders with my Win/Netscape ? I understand that the answer is yes, although I have not done it. I think the answer would be the same for thunderbird/firefox. I have the same requirement with email, but solve it with imap. In other words I have a server with all my mail stored on it. I can access it with any client from any computer from any OS, including over the web via squirrelmail. I don't really know any mail clients that do not do imap. That, IMHO is the answer to accessing mail from different OSes, although it may not suit people who don't want or cannot afford another computer in their house/place of work. (I sometimes must spend *many* hours in Win to run tools and applications to make money with. These programs (mostly related to embedded tiny processors) are win-only, and have no linux-equivalents, and won't even run under Win4Lin since w4l9x basically does not support 'random' USB devices like embedded debuggers.) Feel free to jump in and educate me, Nick, folks! -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Browsers and emailers [Was Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?]
Continued at Bottom... Nick Rout wrote: Robert G. Hays wrote: Might be 24+ hours before I get back from linux -- only do mail in Netscape 7.1, which I only have in Win at the moment; working to get linux full for my needs, which will include Netscape. IMHO move on to mozilla, unless there really is something showstopping holding you to netscrape. *shudder* have not used netscrape for many moons, didn't even know you could still get it? Still strong: :: Win: currently 7.2 Lin: currently 7.1 ... *shudder* ... :: 7.0 was *massively* better than any previous, 7.1 modestly-moderately better than 7.0 (In Win; haven't had Lin-Video up to my standards until just now with Gentoo.) I *need* all past email to remain in use, without any chance of loss or error, and I need all new email to go to the same place, and I bloody well intend, if possible, to use *one* tool to access all of it. Ditto bookmarks, eddresses, etc.. If Netscape/Linux won't share thusly with Netscape/Win, then I will be looking for something else in Linux, or both. Current thought has Opera for both as browser, and I have no email candidate yet -- *MUST* work same in both o/ss! Oh, and I have at least two mailboxes from two different providers, and Netscape handles both in the same screen. If Netscape will work share, there would have to be a very good reason to change. That said, I'm certainly willing to learn newer browse/mail tools for real advantage (but not for 'cooless' or 'religious' nonsense), but I absolutely *need* Win Lin to play nice by using one file-set for both's everything depending on which o/s I've booted into at any particular moment. Can Mozilla SHARE the Win/Netscape bookmarks, history, eddress-book, **and** local accumulated-mail folders with my Win/Netscape ? (I sometimes must spend *many* hours in Win to run tools and applications to make money with. These programs (mostly related to embedded tiny processors) are win-only, and have no linux-equivalents, and won't even run under Win4Lin since w4l9x basically does not support 'random' USB devices like embedded debuggers.) Feel free to jump in and educate me, Nick, folks! rgh. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
