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Installing Linux for the first time

Post by Tracy Shellenberge » Wed, 11 Nov 1998 04:00:00



Hi everybody,

Tomorrow around 9:00 a.m. in the morning central time (USA) I am going
to be installing Linux for the first time.  I have three distributions
of Linux:  (Debian, Red Hat 5.0, and S.u.S.E. 5.2)  The Red Hat
distribution I got from the the Linux for Dummies book and the S.u.S.E.
distribution I got from the English magazine P.C. Plus.  I have already
tried to install and S.u.S.E. and I did not have enough room on my two
hard drives to pack everything there.  I have successfully installed Red
Hat 5.0 successfully but did not like the window managers and had
trouble accessing the internet with it.  So, I have two more questions
that I would like to have answered if anyone can help me.  They are:

    1.  Since Red Hat 5.0 does not come with Communicator 4.0x can I get
the program from the SuSE CD as long as it is in the rpm format or "tar"
format (after I installed Red Hat 5.0)?

    2.  SuSE also had the KDE desktop manager which appeals to me a lot
from what I have seen .  Can I also get that from the CD once Red Hat is
installed?

I am spoiled by the Netscape Communicator program for Win95 and I don't
think I can get on the net without it very easily so I hope you can help
me.  I will await my installation until I hear from someone in the mail
tomorrow morning.

Thanks for reading this

Sincerely,
Rev. Tracy Shellenberger

 
 
 
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Post by Henrik Lidbj?r » Thu, 12 Nov 1998 04:00:00


Hello!

OK... Firsty, I recommend Slackware or Debian, though I haven't tried it
yet, although a friend of mine has. Anyway, here's the answers to your
questions:

Quote:>     1.  Since Red Hat 5.0 does not come with Communicator 4.0x can I
> get the program from the SuSE CD as long as it is in the rpm format or
> "tar" format (after I installed Red Hat 5.0)?

Yes, definitely. Tarred and gzipped files (extension tar.gz) are fully
compatible with all distributions. Rpm is RedHat's package-format, and
works as well.

Quote:

>     2.  SuSE also had the KDE desktop manager which appeals to me a
> lot from what I have seen .  Can I also get that from the CD once Red
> Hat is installed?

Yes, if SuSE doesn't have their own package-format (I have no experience
with SuSE).

Quote:

> I am spoiled by the Netscape Communicator program for Win95 and I
> don't think I can get on the net without it very easily so I hope you
> can help me.  I will await my installation until I hear from someone
> in the mail tomorrow morning.

OK. Installing Netscape Communicator is very easy, but the Linux version
actually lacks some features found in the Windoze version, for example
offline-mode and automatic address-completion from in the address-field.
Otherwise, it's almost identic. But be sure to set the X-resource (in
~/.Xdefaults) netscape*busyCursor to change the clock-cursor that for
some stupid reason shows up in Communicator as soon as you load a page.
I don't really see why Netscape don't include the lacking features in
the Linux-version. It wouldn't be hard at all.

Well... good luck with your Linux installation and setup!
Just mail back if there's something else you wonder.

/Henrik
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there faq and how-to's all over the web on it you probably can find one about
it from where you got the version of linux from..... the choice of what
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