[nflug] firefox update

Jonathan Skulski jskulski at gmail.com
Tue Apr 18 16:28:36 EDT 2006


There's a flavor of ubuntu that installs xfce as default. Xubuntu I think.
Certainly low requirements for that. Of course you can always install
fluxbox or whatever you use after you install.

On 4/18/06, Joe <josephj at main.nc.us> wrote:
>
> David J. Andruczyk wrote:
> > --- Joe <josephj at main.nc.us> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Related issue:
> >> Can someone tell me how to properly install Firefox and Thunderbird
> >> in
> >> root land (I currently have them installed in my personal user
> >> directory) and then how to do the updates for plugins, etc.  I'm on
> >> Mandrake 9.1 and install from tarballs.  Haven't had much luck with
> >> rpm's, my distro is too old.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Have you considered moving up to a more recent distro?  like whatever
> > mandrakesoft (or mandriva) has,  or ubuntu, or FC5.  I'd personally
> > recommend ubuntu as it was dead easy to install and update, as I
> > recently did a duron 900 mhz box (went from win2k to Linux for a family
> > member) with ubuntu 5.10 (stable) and it runs great on it.
> >
> >
> >
> > Dave J. Andruczyk
> >
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>
> Joe
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