> Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 23:15:28 +1100 > From: Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <quote who="Ken Foskey"> > > > The current version of Open Office does not have a spell check and > > it is an 'interesting beast' to set up. It definitely is not built > > on the normal pattern of source and configuration is not really > > great. > > Good god! You didn't build it did you? > > I thought compiling Mozilla was a feat - OpenOffice requires 3 gigs to > build. I don't think I'll be bothering too soon. Not yet, cannot get the *&^^%% thing to build yet. I have to fill up my 20 meg harddisk somehow :-} This is going to be my hobby for the next few months. This this is a major challenge to set up and build. I downloaded GCC and just set it up (except the stuff moved around a bit). On some other topics: Single disk linux: linux mag page 100 - Coyote linux www.coyotelinux.com/coyote.html Usability: It is vital for linux to embrace making linux user friendly. For example I just installed win4lin (very very cool: windows is dead, long live windows!). There were no indications on the front of the package that what releases they supported, I had to open the box! It was not obvious from the instruction that I could go onto the site and download current kernels. The install command just did not work at all. It was fairly trivial to do this just work on the RPMs directly however this would totally stump a novice Linux user and this is where this type of package is targeted for. Simple things really annoy users. I use redhat and when I sign on there are too dialogue boxes one for the userid and one for the password. The latency on my machine between the first box and the second is enough that I regularly get signon failed! Why have two dialogues anyway. I am sure that RH 5 had a single dialogue box. I answered a question regarding network PPP connections and I was privately told to 'look at the scripts'. I am not scared of the scripts I do this for a living but I have to say why? The set up should be obvious, the connection to the internet should be very very easy, not two totally different systems to set up a connection. When I downloaded the latest linux config it was very complete but mucked up my PPP connections totally, I am still not quite sure how I made them work again. LInux config and (if redhat sticks with it) wvdial must work seamlessly together or you end up with confusion and linux with a bad name. Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
