6/23/02 1:17:34 AM, Rick Moen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Please note that this means you're (probably) running a GNOME desktop >with the sawfish window manager. In 64 MB of total RAM. Have a look >at the output of "top" to see how heavily loaded memory is, and you'll >understand my comment about how much happier you'll be if you double the >physical RAM.
Upgrading to 128MB of RAM is recommended and imparts more speed and usability to the desktop/window manager. I recommend using KDE 3.0 to Gnome and KDE 2.2. It's objprelink optimizations have made it faster than ever. It now performs and feels like a light window manager such as WindowMaker or Blackbox. If you like using AbiWord and Gnumeric, don't fear. KDE can launch Gnome programs as well. I've quit using the Gnome desktop because of its slow performance, particularly Nautilus. I agree that Nautilus is far more user-friendly than Konqueror as a file manager, but the slow performance really gets in the way. I waste my time twiddling my pen when I'm in Gnome. The desktop is likewise more logical in KDE. It is familiar enough to begin with and has functionalities that extend the usability concepts in Windows. Things may change with the introduction of Gnome 2.0 though. I might appreciate using Gnome again hopefully with 2.0 >> RH box that I setup was able to connect to W2K File server via >> "smbmount" this will work for the meantime but I need a much user >> friendlier solution. I'll take a look at LinNeighborhood. LinNeighborhood is recommended for point-and-click access. However, I'm a big fan of Linux Mandrake 8.1 (will be a fan of 8.2 this coming Monday). Windows file-access through smbmount is intrinsically built right into the Mandrake Control Center. You don't have to know smbmount commands at all. Mandrake will automatically search the network for any shared drives/files and access it for you, in a point-and- click fashion. >> I'm also thinking now how will the Linux Desktops change their passwords on the >> W2K Active Directory File Server. Rick, which do you prefer as a network authentication method? NIS or OpenLDAP? Raul, you may try replacing the Win2K server with a Red Hat server as soon as you're comfortable managing your Red Hat environment. Linux-Mandrake has an excellent how-to, using Samba as a Primary Domain Controller for Windows clients. Since you use Red Hat, I cannot recommend this how-to. However, you can experiment with the how-to concepts with Red Hat when you're not busy anymore. Here are the links: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/connect/csamba.html http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/connect/csamba2.html http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/connect/csamba3.html http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/connect/csamba5.html http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/connect/csamba6.html >> I hit a wall on the printing of old word and excel files opened via >> OpenOffice. Although it gets spooled on the W2K print server, the >> quality of the output is very very bad. You can copy your truetype fonts from your windows partition to openoffice's fonts directory. You may also try installing freetype fonts, but I personally prefer using the windows fonts. They look really good and its scalability is neat. >The database part can be cured in the Linux version of OpenOffice.org by >interconnecting it to MySQL or PostgreSQL. Instructions for doing so >came out recently, and I've mirrored them here: > >http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/openoffice.org-database >http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/openoffice.org-mysql.pdf >http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/openoffice.org-mysql.txt > Here are more useful links: http://www.unixodbc.org/doc/OOoMySQL.pdf _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
