Well just to bring some closure to this... I'm back from converting my sister's clinic from Windows to Linux. Some points of interest:
1. The vte experiment failed. I built it with scoansi support via the corresponding ./configure parameter, but the resulting executable gave a totally trashed-up display, worse than just using the default xterm emulation. We ended up using PowerTerm, a commercial terminal emulator of which there are versions for both Windows and Linux. 2. I decided to use Ubuntu Linux, which is based on Debian but without the warts. I.e., Ubuntu is easy to install, easy to use, easy to keep up-to-date, has a huge selection of available packages and includes the excellent Synaptic GUI package manager. I rejected Fedora Core 3 mainly due to its role as a "test bed" distribution. Mandrake 10.1 CE was considered but rejected due to very poor upgradability. Commercial versions of Mandrake and SuSE were considered, but why pay for it when Ubuntu has it all? Yoper would have been a strong contender, but at the time www.yoper.com was down and seemed to have an uncertain future (looks like it's back up now). 3. Resizing NTFS partitions is a major issue in these conversions, unless you have no qualms about blowing away Windows completely. The "System Rescue CD" at http://www.sysresccd.org/ includes a recent PartEd with ntfsresize, which does a fine job of this whereas earlier versions of these programs do not. I think the latest Knoppix (3.7) may also have recent enough versions but am not totally sure (Knoppix 3.6 does not). Overall things went very well. They'll need some hand- holding for the next week or two, and a couple of machines still need to be able to boot windows for special needs, but eventually those will be dealt with also. -- Rod _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
