Corel LINUX OS

[Ronald Maggio]

----- Original Message -----
From: JJ Neff <jjneff at yahoo.com>
To: <nflug at nflug.org>
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 11:36 AM
Subject: Re: Corel LINUX OS


> Enlightenment is the WM desktop I use and I have grown very fond of it.
All
> the .deb's are in the potato source and can be apt-get'd from the debian
> sources.
>
> KDE (goto kde.org) also has a description of how to add their ftp site to
your
> apt/sources.list but it has the wrong path, basically you have to add the
path
> that stops just under the slink location of the packages.gz.
> "deb ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/1.1.2/distribution/deb/slink i386/"
<--
> this is the path as I did it this weekend, just add it as the last line of
your
> sources.list.  You then do an "apt-get update"  then apt-get the following
as a
> minimum, kdesupport, kdelibs, kdebase (and of course kdegames).
> http://www.kde.org/documentation/faq/kdefaq-4.html <-- link to the
installation
> instructions.  Par. 4.3 will tell you that kdesupport is optional but
somewhere
> else it lists it as necessary for DEBIAN distro so get it.  I did the
following
> in a few hours over a dial-up and set my wife up with KDE, even made a few
fast
> desktop shortcuts to Netscape, Freeamp, and StarOffice so it looks very
> Win95'sh to her.  Me I prefer E.  Love my BlueHeart Theme.  Even started
> messing with starting a clock in the lower right hand corner next to my
> iconbox,
>
> JAMES, do you know how I put clock --digital in a Right hand pager as
opposed
> to the default window that E gives it??
>
> Micah, E lets me put things in an Icon box as minis, has multiple desktops
> panels (with the blowup view when you hold your mouse on it which Dennis
> Loved...:)and I can also Middle click to rollup the window like a Mac
desktop.
> So many choices!!  I'm sorry I can't give you more help with distro's
haven't
> used any others.  I'm gettign used to just grabbing the stuff needed for
now.
> But I can imagine the pain I'll be in if I have to redo my system from
scratch.
>  I'll have to bring it to work to use the T-1, Oh well life's a risk...
>
> I finally got Freeamp installed and can now play my MP3's from my NTserver
on
> my Linux box.  Man, now to get Tombraider playing and get rid of Winders
> forever, but for that I NEED Direct X.
>
> Oh I also ran into my first Thrashing episode this weekend while in
Netscape,
> anyone have any ideas about what causes it or how to stop it other that
> power-button?
>
> JJN
>Hi John:)
Tell me does MS make an IE browser for linux? It not is there a way of
moving bookmarks that where made in IE to Netscape in linux? I seam not to
have much luck at all trying to figure out how to move bookmarks over.
Yours Ron Maggio
>
>
>
> --- Micah Valine <mvaline at buffnet.net> wrote:
> > At 11:50 PM 4/7/00 -0400, you wrote:
> >  > Has anyone else installed Corel LINUX OS from the diskettes we gave
out?
> >
> > I promptly tried installing the Corel Linux OS from the disk that I got
at
> > our last meeting. I currently have been fooling with Debian.  I like it,
> > but am having some difficulty getting a desktop manager working
> > (Enlightenment and Gnome are rather daunting) and KDE didn't come with
my
> > distribution. Thus, I was hoping that perhaps Corel would do some of the
> > dirty work for me.
> >
> > The install did get me up an running fairly quickly. However, it failed
to
> > detect my sound card or my video card / monitor. I had to use a backup
copy
> > of an old XF86Config file to get it to run.
> >
> > I think all the distros could learn a lesson from Caldera OpenLinux.
That
> > had me running with sound and graphics and on the Internet in less than
45
> > minutes from tearing the shrink wrap.
> >
> > Micah
> >
>
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