From: snuhwolf5150@hotmail.com   
      
   Edmund wrote:   
   > In message <20061217092725.4d41521b@vector>, Snuhwolf wrote:   
   >> On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 10:22:07 +0100   
   >> Edmund  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> In message <1165977359.049760.105060@j44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,   
   >> "befuddled"   
   >>> wrote:   
   >   
   >>> What I do need is :   
   >>> 	Internet Browsing Email and newsgroups   
   >>> 	(  that doesn't have to be one package! )   
   >>>   
   >> Allow me to butt in...Seamonkey has all that and it dosent crash BeOS.   
   >   
   > Hi you're welcome.   
   > I am sorry to say but I have just about had it with BeOS, mostly because   
   > there is no browser available which can handle all those bloody plugin stuff.   
   > Way to many times I see an empty page or a page filled with :   
   > "download the pugin"   
   >   
      
   I think there might be more stuff for the firefox port than there is for   
   seamonkey...although thats what I'm using to post this :)   
      
   > Seamonkey is very slow on an older computer and cannot even   
   > print a webpage.   
      
   I think thats an easy workaround for just saving some text: cut and   
   paste into styled edit and then print.   
      
   > It cannot print an email and it cannot print a news message.   
      
   I need to try that some time...hmmm!   
      
   > Not sure if it can combine newsgroup messages ( don't think so )   
   > and it crashes sometimes.   
   > BTW   
   > I do love Mail-It with is perfect for me, and  very much   
   > like "newsreader" but that sometimes crashes too on sertain messages   
   > and have a few other bugs. But the layout and is the best I   
   > ever saw in any newsreader under any OS.   
      
   I wish *someone* would port X-News to BeOS and linux.   
   Once youve used X-News you pretty much hate everything else.   
      
      
   >>> A decent wordprocessor, maybe a abyword if that is developed   
   >>> to and extent that is it useable and has a spelling check in different   
   >>> languages. And the possibility to make customized letters and   
   >>> can use address labels from a database   
   >>>   
   >> Yeah....theres a version that some guy in poland developed that you can   
   >> find in the comments section of BeBits...theres a link to a polish webpage   
   >> but its FTP and demands a user name an password to download :(   
   >>   
   >> But the Abiword site shows its lack of participation in BeOS development,   
   >> sadly.   
   >   
   > Yes it is.   
   >   
   >>> A database that can be used with this wordprocessor.   
   >>>   
   >>> A simple and I emphasize SIMPLE programming tool so I can   
   >>> quickly do some dedicated calculations. ( QBasic alike )   
   >>> The faster the better!   
   >>>   
   >>> WiFi and stuff like "backtrack" for wifi sniffing should   
   >>> be nice too, and drivers for the nowadays use "wide screens"   
   >>>   
   >>> I really don't know what to choose for linux flavor, the list   
   >>> is endless and advise "see if it fit your needs" would take   
   >>> at least 50 years or so to chek them out.   
   >>>   
   >> Kubuntu? Any recent Slackware...or use Debian if you like to add apps with   
   >> ease.   
   >>   
   >> apt-get is childs play.   
   >   
   > OK I prefer I quick boot and a responsive OS above the ease   
   > of installing stuff, if I can have both, that's fine too :-)   
   >   
      
   Not many linuxes boot quickly.   
   THe small lightweight distros like Damn Small or Austrumi do...   
   but they are live CD's.   
      
   >>> And about installing I don't like it -to put it mildly-   
   >>> if any OS destroys my boot sector and there is no way but formatting   
   >>> the disk to get rid of it again. (like some Linux flavors do ).   
   >>> I much more like to install it, and start it with GAG, so that I later   
   >> Learn to adjust GRUB manually?   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>> can decide to keep or remove it again.   
   >>> Should I divide my harddrive in two virtual disks before installing   
   >>> Linux?   
   >>> (For some stuff I keep windows beside it )   
   >>>   
   >> YES. Make a separate partition just for linux.   
   >   
   > Must I first give it a letter like D: or anything   
   > and then make  /etc .../home  /....   and whatever?   
      
   You need a root, swap, and boot partiton.   
   Most distros have a built-in partition utility.   
   I like "parted" the best.   
      
      
   >>> Can you advise me what Linux version I should give a try,   
   >>> and if the above mentioned things are available?   
   >>> BTW I prefer a real Hdrive installation above a live CD.   
   >>>   
   >> Slackware   
   >> Debian   
   >> Kubuntu   
   >> Mepis   
   >   
   > That is 4 already :-(   
   >> or shop around http://distrowatch.com for ideas...   
   >   
   > There are another zillion versions,I don't get it, I am pretty sure   
   > all the things I want to have is exactly the same as anybody   
   > else want to have.   
   > Why can't these people work together for a change, why every week another   
   > linux flavor AAAAARRRCH.   
   >   
      
   Ive been asking myself that  question for years :)   
      
   Btw, I saw a post on BeBits by you about getting usb working.   
   When I tried it I got a crash at the boot screen...   
   Is there a workaround?   
      
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