Re: [Lug-Nuts] 31 Flavors of LINUX

From: Michael Long (mlong@ns.net)
Date: Wed Nov 03 1999 - 07:46:31 PST


I hardly have any problems with netscape running on my linux box. What are
you guys seeing? Actually, I did have a problem with netscape would hit a
web site with java in it, but that was easily fixed after doing a little
research on deja.com. It's been rock solid for me. I even bring up the
yahoo messanger java applet now :)

Michael

On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Scott Tyson wrote:

> Version 1.0 of Gnome was far less stable than NT. I didn't bother with
> KDE, wasn't much of a CDE fan when I had an HP-UX box. I'd rather do
> straight WindowMaker if I were to go back to Linux as my desktop OS.
> Don't know how Redhat 6.1/Gnome is but my guess not that much better.
> I'm also kinda bummed I read all this negative stuff about Netscape on
> Linux. It runs fine for me on NT but then so does IE 5.0. Netscape is
> fatter and slower than I.E. 5 which is not great but it doesn't crash.
> Isn't Opera working on a Linux port?
>
> *********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********
>
> On 11/3/99 at 5:20 AM Hubert Littau scribbled:
>
> >I found Gnome to be about as stable as Netscape for Linux or for that
> matter,
> >Microsoft *.*
> >For me kde has been the work horse with Mandrake as well as straight
> Redhat.
> >My own relatively early impression is that if there was one thing that
> would
> >hold Linux back from desktop use it would have to be Netscape or the
> lack of
> >a feature-comparable replacement.
> >
> >Eric Andreasen wrote:
> >
> >> Caldera Open Linux 2.2 and Mandrake (RedHat) 6.1. I go back and
> forth. I
> >> really like the look and feel of Gnome and Enlightenment. Celeron
> 466 on
> >> Abit BP6, 64MB RAM (more processors and RAM to come!) Having a
> problem with
> >> AGP though, doh! Will try to install driver tonight (a first for
> me).
> >>
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>
> Scott Tyson
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