On November 7, 2002 08:17 am, Gary Armstrong wrote: > Couple of questions from a true newbie: > > 1) How do you figure out the names of applications available to solve a > particular need? Google and rpmfind.net are your best friends. > > 2) In particular, I'm looking for the best FREE case tool. I'm trying to > demo argo(is there a better one?). The home page didn't appear to have > an rpm. How do I know if there is one out there in the ether? It also > requires jre which doesn't seem to be installed on my mdk9.0 machine. > Tried urpmi java and it doesn't appear to be on the CDs either, but not > knowing what it's called, this could all be a newbie problem. In Google type 'Case tools for Linux,. 846,000 hits. Java is commercial and not on downloaded CD,s. Here is a URL for jre1.4
http://freeunix.dyndns.org:8088/ftp_site/pub/unix/sun-j2re/ > > 3) I've been using the Mozilla browser. Its download manager doesn't > appear capable of restarting. That has already been painful. Can I get > it to use a different download manager and what would that be? Is there > some better way? In contrib section of ML9 mirrors is a program called -d4x- Great downloader. > > 4) I've the seen the command to find rpms on the net go by several > times, didn't think I'd need it soon. Sorry for the assumption, but > what's the command to find rpms on the net? www.rpmfind.net > > 5) How much difference is there between linux distributions? As in, does > the doc for one release apply to all? Is there some kind of enormous > organized FAQ out there? Mainly in treatment of desktops. Distro's try to keep docs up to date but it's a major chore. Mandrake does the best job as far as newbie's go. Again, the best way to get answers is either this list or Google. > > TIA > Gary If you need more help, just ask;-)) Spence
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