I was actually looking forward from the transition from Windslowdoze to Red Hat but its been nothing but problems! :bawling:

My modem wouldnt work so I had to tinker with it for 2 hours to get it working.

I sort of forgot about the no Internet Explorer so im stuck with Nutscrape. Anyone know of any other browsers for Linux apart from Opera/Mozilla?

I remember seeing something on the Microsoft website a few months ago something about *nix builds of 4.0 (which I could live with) but I cant find it now :cartman:

Also, I cant seem to find a version of ICQ that bloody compiles so Im stuck with no ICQ now :rolleyes:

Egad - its one of those days :angry:

PS. No mouse scrollwheel either :bawling:

When I switched my office server to RedHat (from Win2k), I mostly bought new hardware for it..network cards and modems, but ever since that, it's great!

Try using an RPM to install ICQ, easy:

command prompt: rpm -i urltofile

Linux is mostly for work and not for desktops.
Anyway the KDE GUI sucks. Let's not talk about Gnome.

If you want games and good user interface Windows is the way to go.

you can also use "everybuddy" instead ICQ
Is very simillar to trillian but for linux.

http://www.everybuddy.com

Browsers for linux? mmm.. all sucks to me. either I can't find a good email manager for linux.

I'm stuck with IE and The Bat! in Windoze

If you need a Windoze shell you can use Vmware (http://www.vmware.com/)

About: VMWare allows you to run 'virtual machines' inside Linux. It is not an emulator. It provides a virtual computer within Linux which can boot whichever OS you decide to put on the filesystem image that is used as a harddrive. It will run DOS 6.22, Win 3.1, Win95, Win98, WinNT 4, Windows 2000, Linux, and more. The only main requirement is a P-II 266 or better, along with lots of RAM (64M minimum, 128M recommended).


I hope this help you a bit :)

Yeah, of course..I wouldn't recommend Linux for an average desktop user..great for any type of server though :)

I would recommend Redhat Linux or SuSe ...you shouldn't be playing games during work anyways. :D

*nux for work or home I hate. For servers it is great, but when its my main desktop, I can go without it. Thats why I like windows.

Originally posted by Kiwi
I would recommend Redhat Linux or SuSe ...you shouldn't be playing games during work anyways. :D

Indeed, but I dont play games anyway - my partner does but Ive never been a "Gamer" ;)

Im actually getting used to Linux now - a dam site faster then Win 2000. I think I'll be ok once opera has finished downloading and I dont have to use Nutscrape 4.7 :eek:

Also, Ive got the rpm's for licq but it wont install - I think Ive got an old version of RPM maybe as it says:


Only packages with major numbers <=3 are supported by this version of RPM


It is only redhat 6.1 (all I had - buying 7.1 today or tomorrow) so some things are likely to be out of date 'spose.

I'll check out that Shell program too - could come in useful :D

Originally posted by Nicholas Brown
I'll check out that Shell program too - could come in useful

I'd say. :D :D :D

Originally posted by Nicholas Brown


Indeed, but I dont play games anyway - my partner does but Ive never been a "Gamer" ;)

Im actually getting used to Linux now - a dam site faster then Win 2000. I think I'll be ok once opera has finished downloading and I dont have to use Nutscrape 4.7 :eek:

Also, Ive got the rpm's for licq but it wont install - I think Ive got an old version of RPM maybe as it says:



It is only redhat 6.1 (all I had - buying 7.1 today or tomorrow) so some things are likely to be out of date 'spose.

I'll check out that Shell program too - could come in useful :D

On the office server, I tried Netscape 6 on it, and it's actually very nice..

Well, Ive broke it big time :D

Anyone know if its possible to access Linux EXT2 partitions from Windows? :(

Originally posted by Nicholas Brown
Well, Ive broke it big time :D

Anyone know if its possible to access Linux EXT2 partitions from Windows? :(
No, not from the machine it's installed on...

You can share them with Samba (http://www.samba.org) and see them from another windows machine.

You can just store files on a server or on a FAT32 partition and read them from either OS.

How did you break Mozilla6? (Oh, and on a sane OS(like linux tries to be), you can just blow away the program directory and rebuild the software.)

I don't use RPMs, but I've built licq several different times and had no problems using it.

You ask about browsers...

I dual boot my home/office machine, as there are a number of development programs I prefer in Linux. It's not perfect, but I like the KDE desktop, and use the Konqueror browser for web sites. If you go with Konqueror, make sure to install the package that allows Konq to use NS plugins. This will allow you to install the flash plugin. (Nothing worse than going to a flash intensive site w/o flash installed - each flash item spawns a new browser window telling your to download flash. Bad stuff.) Konq's interface is a little different from IE. Once I got used to it, though, it became my favorite browser.

I agree with the Rev there. Konquorer is a nice browser to us. For my mind as good as IE, and better looking. Once I cracked open the case, pulled out a winmodem, abd just started using an external serial modem, all was good for getting online.

After some initial teething problems, Rehat 7.1 running KDE2 has been failsafe. Were it not for Adobe, Humanclick and Macromedia products, I'd have pulled windows off this a long time ago.

... well maybe left it for gaming. Max Payne and Alice just need to be played. :D

Greg Moore

Originally posted by slade
How did you break Mozilla6? (Oh, and on a sane OS(like linux tries to be), you can just blow away the program directory and rebuild the software.)



I don't use RPMs, but I've built licq several different times and had no problems using it.

I didnt, I broke Linux totally :)

I was using an old version of RH6 which wasnt a good Idea - Im using MDK-7.1 now and I'll upgrade to 8.1 when they release it.

All fixed now - just trying to adapt to using this instead of Windoze 2000 - gad I miss IE5

I hate Mandrake..

Why not just reformat the drive and install RedHat 7.1 freshly? That's what I did..