On Aug 16, 2007, at 10:49 AM, Ted Gould wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 10:31 -0700, Chris Gehlker wrote: >> My question for you all is this: 'Is the Nautilus shell common >> enough on newbie desktop Linux systems that it is reasonable just to >> assume it is there?' > > For GNOME based distributions it is. There are some KDE ones also. > Konquerer has the same feature, but you have to remember the magic > keyword "fish", so a SSH URI is "fish://myserver/". > > In my experience don't question why you need to know this magic > keyword > to KDE people, they are unable to talk rationally about it. Hopefully > this has changed in newer version of KDE. (I'm sure someone will > respond to this :)) Thanks Ted and Jon, Can you recommend a newbie oriented KDE distribution so I can go 'fishing' myself. Here are the distros "officially" supported by my virtualization software though I don't think that matters much: Red Hat® Enterprise Linux 5, 4, 3 Red Hat® Linux 9, 8, 7.3 Debian® Linux 4.0, 3.1 FedoraTM Core Linux 6, 5, 4, 3 SUSE® Linux 10.2, 10.1, 10.0, 9.3, 9.2, 9.1, 9.0 MandrakeTM Linux 10.1, 10, 9.2 Mandriva Linux 2007 Ubuntu® Linux 7.04, 6.10, 6.06, 5.04 Xandros Busines 4.0 CentOS 5 -- The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. -Paul Valery, poet and philosopher (1871-1945) --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss