> [Installing YDL]
> Anyway, I'm looking forward to
> having a computer which doesn't crash every five minutes :-)
Sounds like an extension conflict to me. I would get crashes
with 9.x, but not like that. Disabling the Firewire extensions
helped a lot in my case, and I didn't use it anyway.
> Anyway. As a newbie I really want to be able to surf the net, check
emails
> and play a few games as well as run an office-like suite of apps. Can
> anyone recommend a few programs to me?
On a G3/266, I used Konqueror for a browser, Sylpheed for email
(very quick and comfortable), and kept the KDE games handy for
distraction. Since I've switched to OSX, the only thing I've
really missed is Kpat (the card games). For office suites, you
have OpenOffice and Koffice to choose from. If you have to deal
with MS-Office files, I've had really good luck opening them with
OpenOffice; indeed, sometimes it does a better job than OSX Word!
If you have very simple needs, have a look at Siag Office (at
siag.nu).
> Also can anyone offer advise about what pitfalls I should be wary of and
> things I might but shouldn't do....
Don't expect everything to Just Work like it does under MacOS.
For example, changing video resolutions on the fly is only
starting to become available under Linux.
Watch for little hardware flakies that MacOS covered over -- for
example, I have a USB mouse & printer; moving the mouse during
a print job would screw up the print job under Linux. Don't expect
your floppy drive to work at all.
Gather up as much info as you can beforehand about your video
hardware and monitor. Read the directions very carefully when
you start configuring it. The penalty for a mistake here is
being stuck with 640x480 until you figure out how to fix it. :-)
--
Larry Kollar, Senior Technical Writer, ARRIS
"Content creators are the engine that drives
value in the information life cycle."
-- Barry Schaeffer, on XML-Doc
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