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On Sunday 21 July 2002 5:51 pm, paul wrote:
I'll see if I can help a little,
Conclude, Linux is ready for the desktop if someone who knows what he/she is doing sets it up, at least with the support community you can write to developers and let them know the problems faced, and it can be fixed, even if you just suggest a better way of doing things. But in a office / school all computers would be set up by someone who knows what they are doing anyway and they are on hand to solve any probs. Other countries e.g mexico, china and korea and germany have done this, so it the community are doing something right.
I'm no expert but I installed SuSE 8.0 Personal on my wife's machine. Just shoved in CD #1 and away it went. 20-30mins later it was all done. The only other thing I had to do was insert CD#2 because she wanted StarOffice. Once installed I let her lose on it. With little or no help from me she can do all she wants to do as is. It prints her text and photos with no problems (yet?) and she can send/receive her mail. Although she knows nothing whatsoever about computer systems it didn't stop her finding out how to install some games using YAST2. Don't know enough to say whether a network setup using SuSE 8.0 would as easy though. And of course there are no Linux CDs for automatically setting up a PPP connection to an ISP.
I am typing this using outlook but could just as easily use kmail,or a
linux client. I haven't used anything else but Kmail for months now. (I won't use Outlook on principal because it's M$). My bro uses Eudora on his Mac and we agree that it's a nice bit of kit but not so intuitive and simple to use as Kmail. Keith -- SuSE 8.0 Linux on 700Mhz AMD Duron with 128MB RAM and 20GB Maxtor HD using KDE's Kmail -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.