Re: [MLUG] progress .... ???/

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> What about RedHat and Gnome?  That's what I'm using now.  Not without 
> its issues.

RedHat's pretty good. Gnome, like KDE, is bloated.. though maybe not 
quite as much.

> For example, this dual monitor thing.  i have now downloaded Mozilla 
> 1.5a, and it's still crashing.  And when the screen saver runs a while, 
> it shuts down X altogether and all the programs that were running too.

That's unusual. Either you somehow have it messed up (possibly through 
no fault of your own) or you have a hardware problem.. if it's the later 
a different dist or window enviroment may or may not help.

> I've heard Debian is good, but that someone like me would probably have 
> troubles. 

It's good but isn't especially newbie friendly.

> I don't want to have to use morse code to interact with my computer.  I 
> like the Gnome desktop, but this crashing stuff just drives you back to 
> Windoze.

As I said it's not the usual behavior. Linux, X, and Mozilla are usually 
very stable. Gnome/KDE are more lacking in stability but still should be 
better than Windows.

> I read some tech reviews that say Scribus will probably run better on 
> SuSE 8.2, and I'm thinking of trying that out to replace Publisher.  
> I've heard Quanta might get me off of Dreamweaver ....   and I know the 
> Gimp is there, but I think I read that Photoshop has a linux version.  
> hmmmmm

Scribus looks pretty cool but I have no use for it at this time.. so no 
experience yet.

It could although it shouldn't matter since it's opensource. If you find 
RPM's for RedHat or compile it yourself it should run just fine. SuSE 
RPM's may or may not work better on SuSE than RedHat.

Quanta is okay I guess. I'm not a Dreamweaver fan either so I have no 
valid opinion. ;)

Gimp is good but takes some practice to get good with and lacks some 
abiltiies Photoshop has.. while having other abiltiies Photoshop lacks.

Photoshop doesn't, to my knowledge, have a Linux version but you can run 
it with CodeWeaver's CrossOver Office version of Wine (a Windows 
emulation layer).

-- 
Peace, Love, Linux

Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
http://kavlon.org

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