actually, I was asking the about the grub etc. for my own projects in
exchange for my services to you.
-m
> 1) Instant Messaging (Alan Dayley) - Are we talking AOL for the great
> majority of naive users? Do they expect to login to AOL (and does AOL support
> logging in from Linux -- I thought they had special Windows-only software?)
gaim
> 2) Concern About Fonts on Linux (Ed Skinner) - Are there fonts commonly
> found on Windows machines that are not commonly found with Linux (RedHat 8.0
> is the distribution I'm considering)? If so, Word ".doc" files will look
> "funny" on Linux and naive users will panic when trying to exchange ".doc"
> files with Windows-based users.
> 3) GRUB (Marcia Wilbur) - If the machine will be Linux-only, I (Ed Skinner)
> think this is moot because the Linux installation program should "do the
> right thing." But if the machine will be dual-boot, then yes, the person
> doing the Linux install (on the naive user's behalf) may need to "tweak" it
> to set the appropriate default. Some knowledge of GRUB configuration would
> then be needed by the installer (person). My inclination, however, is to
> configure a Linux-only system and remove the temptation of the naive user
> being tempted by satan (into booting Windows again). [FYI: My sister and I
> are well into adulthood, and more so than I like to remind myself.]
> 4) PDF Reader (Derek Neighbors) - I (Ed Skinner) will disagree with Derek's
> wife and add "acroread" to my growing list of requirements of things to add
> (because they're not in RedHat 8.0 - the baseline I'm considering 'cause
> that's what I'm running).
> 5) Office Tools (Derek Neighbors) - Abiword may be preferable to OpenOffice
> but I (Ed Skinner) don't know if it exchanges files well with Microsoft Word.
> Same for Gnumeric (spreadsheets). Both of my sisters occasionally forward
> ".doc" files to me (Ed Skinner) and I occasionally send one back.
> Interoperability (through ".doc" files) seems important (to me), or is that
> just my strange family?
exchanges well...
> 6) ActiveX (Derek Neighbors) - My (Ed Skinner's) wife is also heavily into
> coupons but we haven't run into this restriction (so we're obviously not
> getting enough coupons!) -- where is she surfing that she needs ActiveX (so
> we can go there and get more coupons!)?
> Comments?
>
> --
> Ed Skinner, ed@flat5.net, http://www.flat5.net/
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