-=> JOHN CRANE wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 WC>I suggest if you have a CD burner you download a free release of Linux
 WC>Ubuntu as it's supposed to make installation and operation easy

 JC> Step ahead there... running 8.04 on a PIII 866. So far I've got Pigin,
 JC> AIM and Jpolit set up. Flash is a bit slow to start but works in
 JC> Firefox.

 JC> If I could somehow get Itunes running, that would be huge, I've read of
 JC> something called Banshee that claims to do ACC.

Can't help you withitunes but there's pardora.com which is an internet
radio site with something like 50 hours a month free but after that 50 $36 a
year.

The interesting thing about that site is you can create various music taste 
accounts and also dismiss individual tunes by artist you don't care for 
on an individual basis
and they won't come up  again while also selecting tunes and
artist you'd like to hear from.

It and your interaction creates a database from which it draws on 
numerous stations to acceed to your tastes in music.

 JC> Need to figure out Wine (love Doom) and Gimp totally confuses me.
 JC> Need to find a way to do telnet, QWK and Pkzip. Need a Wysiwyg HTML and
 JC> CSS editor and get a grab on a good video player. Currently use VLC on
 JC> my windows box.

Uh, doom is now available specifically for Linux and involves 
converting the Windows version disks to Linux but of course you must perchase
it.
No need for wine in this case.

 WC>My firewall is free too and tested at www.grc.com('s) Sheilds up tests
 WC>out completely stealthed and will not return a ping so as far as the
 WC>net is concerned hackers who scan the net for computers can't even
 WC>see me to break in.

 JC> I'll add that to my list.

It's a good test site and told me my firewall was returning a ping,
I added a line to the firewall that came with Slackware 12.2 and that too went
away
and now I get a perfect score.

 WC>The word processor is Open Office, minimal cost for Windows, free for
 WC>Linux and compatable options for all standard word processors out
 WC>there. MSOffice, Word Perfect, ect.

 JC> Preaching to the faithful... went there a couple of years back and put
 JC> it on both my son's and ex's computers as well. That said here's to
 JC> hope Wordperfect comes back to Linux, loved Quattro Pro.

Familiar with the former but not the latter.

 JC> That's the rub that I've seen in Linux to date, the big software names
 JC> haven't put a lot of effort into the OS

Well Open Office can save in either Wordperfect or MS Word or Office 
formats for compatabilty.


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