On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 17:11:14 -0400, Bill Marcum wrote:

> You might need to download drivers from the ATI web site.

NO! For an ati radeon 7000, the drivers in xfree86 are perfect.

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Frank Van Damme

On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 22:06:50 +0200, Bernhard Kastner wrote:

>> If it was XP I would be installing ZoneAlarm and AVG antivirus etc.
>> and doing loads of configuring.
>>
>> What's the equivalent for Debian?
> Haha, yor're done
> Maybe you want to remove some unused packages like exim and install nice
> things like KDE, ...

Maybe a tool that sets up a firewall in an easy way won't be superfluous
luxury. I can't make many recommendations since I have a hand-written
iptables setup...

--
Frank Van Damme

On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 21:27:52 +0100, Amarok wrote:

> Chris wrote:
>>
>> If it was XP I would be installing ZoneAlarm and AVG antivirus etc.
>> and doing loads of configuring.
>>
>> What's the equivalent for Debian?
>
> Antivirus ? What's that ??

Something that check mails passing through your email system for windows
virii

Like ClamAV.

--
Frank Van Damme

8><------------------------------
> I'm not sure what I'm going to do next ... probably install things and
> try to find out whether I could use Sarge as my main system, instead of
> XP.
8><--------------------------------

I don't know if you can, but I know I swore off MS 1998 and haven't had to
return. This includes having kids in school, wife, comp sci in a
small college that had MS machine, etc. all fine with it.

My mom, (70) missed linux when she got a laptop w/ wireless and all, I
never changed it over. She had been running Linux for about 2 yrs and
loved it. The thing she misses most is frozen-bubbles. :-)

I say these things to encourage you that Linux is QUITE do-able, but
yes, it is harder to setup, especially hardware wise. But debian is
great at not messing up your settings when updating w/apt-get, and I
think you sticking it out w/ sarge should be a very good idea.
-- dw

yalu wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 22:06:50 +0200, Bernhard Kastner wrote:
>
>
>>>If it was XP I would be installing ZoneAlarm and AVG antivirus etc.
>>>and doing loads of configuring.
>>>
>>>What's the equivalent for Debian?
>>
>>Haha, yor're done
>>Maybe you want to remove some unused packages like exim and install nice
>>things like KDE, ...
>
>
> Maybe a tool that sets up a firewall in an easy way won't be superfluous
> luxury. I can't make many recommendations since I have a hand-written
> iptables setup...
>

What for? Just keep an eye on the services you run and check the
security updates of them...

>
> Also - I would like to start posting to this newsgroup from the Debian
> machine - because then I could copy and paste things into articles - but
> Debian doesn't seem to have a news client installed.
> Advice welcomed and appreciated.
If you use the default kde desktop, as I am now, you can use newsreader
KNODE. I works quite well and easy to configure.

Meat Loaf wrote:

Chris wrote:


>> Also - I would like to start posting to this newsgroup from the
>> Debian machine - because then I could copy and paste things into
>> articles - but Debian doesn't seem to have a news client installed.
>> Advice welcomed and appreciated.

> If you use the default kde desktop, as I am now, you can use
> newsreader
> KNODE. I works quite well and easy to configure.

Thanks. I am using KDE now - and KNode - as you can see from the
headers. It does seem easy to use.
How do you keep a thread?

In article <pan.2005.10.12.14.39.20.692680@u1010293.ul.warwic k.net>,
linxlvr <donius@u1010293.ul.warwick.net> writes
>8><------------------------------
>> I'm not sure what I'm going to do next ... probably install things and
>> try to find out whether I could use Sarge as my main system, instead of
>> XP.
>8><--------------------------------
>
>I don't know if you can, but I know I swore off MS 1998 and haven't had to
>return. This includes having kids in school, wife, comp sci in a
>small college that had MS machine, etc. all fine with it.
>
>My mom, (70) missed linux when she got a laptop w/ wireless and all, I
>never changed it over. She had been running Linux for about 2 yrs and
>loved it. The thing she misses most is frozen-bubbles. :-)
>
>I say these things to encourage you that Linux is QUITE do-able, but
>yes, it is harder to setup, especially hardware wise. But debian is
>great at not messing up your settings when updating w/apt-get, and I
>think you sticking it out w/ sarge should be a very good idea.

That *is* encouraging indeed - and I probably will persist.
I'm about to reinstall because I get error messages from Synaptic - and
I reckon my install DVD might have been less than perfect in that it
gave read errors when I tried to copy it.

I'm looking for ways to do things that I do in XP.
One thing is to quickly send a photograph by right-clicking it and
selecting "Send to Mail Recipient" whereupon XP resizes the pic and
jpegs it down and launches an email with it as an attachment.

Is there anything like that in Debian?
--
Chris

Meat Loaf wrote:
>>Also - I would like to start posting to this newsgroup from the Debian
>>machine - because then I could copy and paste things into articles - but
>>Debian doesn't seem to have a news client installed.
>>Advice welcomed and appreciated.
>
> If you use the default kde desktop, as I am now, you can use newsreader
> KNODE. I works quite well and easy to configure.
>
>

An excellent option for a newsreader would be Mozilla
Thunderbird. There must be a recent deb package available
for it. Otherwise you can get the current version (v.1.0.7)
of the installer directly from the Mozilla website and
install it e.g. in your home dir.

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.o...d-1.0.7.tar.gz

I hadn't realized, Chris, that you're poised halfway between
Windows XP and Linux, testing the waters and perhaps wanting
to make the transition. In such a situation, why don't you
start out with an easy Debian distro such as Ubuntu/Kubuntu
or Mepis which are quite user-friendly and save a transition
to straight Debian for later, if at all.

Robert