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| Thread ID: 46868 | 2004-07-08 06:22:00 | I've taken the plunge - installed Linux | jcr1 (893) | Press F1 |
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| 250683 | 2004-07-10 11:37:00 | I figured it out! I altered the MTU settings from 1452 to 1412, using Midnight Commander, I might add and now I'm posting this, via wireless internet from Libranet Linux. Guess I'd better e-mail Tal at Libranet support and tell him the good news. Now, I'm doing this on Mozilla 1.3, which is getting back a bit now and I think I would prefer the latest release of Firefox. Any fishhooks that anyone knows about in installing it on a Debian type distribution. |
jcr1 (893) | ||
| 250684 | 2004-07-10 11:44:00 | Well done! :) >I think I would prefer the latest release of Firefox. Any fishhooks that anyone knows about in installing it on a Debian type distribution. It installs on any distro, just download the package with or without the installer (your choice). You can install it into your home directory if you like and if you are the only user who will be wanting to use Firefox. |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 250685 | 2004-07-11 12:19:00 | When I reboot into Linux, I have to use the "poff" command, then the "pon" command in a terminal window i.e. pon dsl-provider. It works! I've used synaptic, which comes with Libranet, and installed Firefox 0.8 and Thunderbird. They both work very, very well under Linux. I was tempted to upgrade the whole distribution, but it would have taken nigh on 6 hours (even with broadband) and I thought "just be cautious to start with and just upgrade as needed. It seems to be going well at this stage. |
jcr1 (893) | ||
| 250686 | 2004-07-11 12:42:00 | Just upgrade your network and wireless via Synatic. It will sort out anything else that is required. In Synactic, go to the View menu and choose Section Tree then look for Networking and the app's you use to see if they have updates. Have you refreshed the Synaptic list so that is knows what is out there? Cheers Murray P PS. Good work ;) |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 250687 | 2004-07-11 21:27:00 | Thanks for your support Murray P . Yes, I have refreshed Synaptic . Tt's a great tool; I used to use apt-get, from the command line, this is much more convenient to use . Just afunny story about apt-get . About 18 months ago, when I was playing around with an earlier version of Libranet, I used apt-get from a dial up connection (all I had back then); I got it so far, then went to bed as it was sooo slooow . Next morning I checked it and what was Libranet was now pure Debian . Another tool I've discovered how to use, this time round with Linux, is Midnight Commander, it's much easier to alter settings than with using the likes of Vi and as for emacs, I don't want to go there . Good on those who get to grips with them; but life's too short to have to battle with arcane editors . |
jcr1 (893) | ||
| 250688 | 2004-07-12 04:58:00 | I have liked and used mc ever since I found it. It's nearly as good as LIST for Dos/Windows. :D It's so much quicker than all the rubbish about mousing, clicking, then deciding what you can open something with. It either knows, or does it. ;-) By the way, the text editor I use is joe. It's close enough to the WordPro style editor in Turbo Pascal for me to use it easily.. pico is nice and easy too. Emacs is all very well for those who like it. I remove it, because I'd sooner have the disk space. I used TECO once. :_| Sometimes you need to use vi but only in emergencies. |
Graham L (2) | ||
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