On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 18:34, allan scott wrote: > Mandrake looks like the go but I need to know if the 8.2 boxed set will contain a >wysiwyg web editor as I have some 340 Mb of book > written. This and some 22,000 digital camera pix, se need to manage these too. > > The big question is, can I wipe MS, install Mandrake and keep writing??? I have a >Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop. Will Mandrake see my > USB port and use my 40 Gb hard drive, my camera card reader, Epson A3 printer and >broadband satelite connection.
Allan, With apologies to the experts around here, I'd urge extreme caution and I'd especially advise very strongly against trying to make the complete switch all at once... Weaning off Microsoft is a worthy goal, no argument there! But do it gradually; start by installing Linux in separate partition and take it from there. This way you'll have the familiar environment to fall back on when problems arise, and they will - don't trust the experts, trust me! I know better, because I'm a Linux newbie unlike many others on this list... I think you should be OK with your USB, Epson and possibly your camera, depending on its model. But as far as wysiwyg web editors go, yes there are web editors for Linux, but IMHO nothing that could match Dreamweaver in ease of use, and possibly in capability as well. As for Quanta, fine program that it is, it is a code editor and not wysiwyg in the same sense as Dreamweaver. Satellite broadband might well turn out to be a problem as well... --------------------------------------------------------------------- "In the struggle of Good against Evil, it's always the people who get killed." -- Eduardo Galeano -- 10:20am up 76 days, 54 min, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00-- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
