On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 09:27:47PM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 02:57:58PM +0000, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > > > - Icewm - not gnome. (it seems lightweight) Alternatives welcome. > > Try fluxbox. It is fast and light. I particularly like its tabbed > window arrangement.
Hadn't heard of that one. I'll study that.
> For a file manager, use rox. If your friend is comfortable with a text
> interface, emelfm should be very good.
Which package is rox in? An "apt-cache search" turns up lots of proxies
and the roxen challenger webserver, but nothing that looks like a file
manager. packages.debian.org doesn't seem to know either.
> > - Mail client - sylpheed? (there was a discussion on debian-user about
> > this recently. I need to read up on that)
>
> Why not mutt?
I love mutt. But I don't think it will be suitable for somebody who
wants to learn to use computers - especially unattended. I suspect that
mutt will be too daunting.
> [[snip]]
>
> > - Browser? Will mozilla be too heavyweight? I like mozilla myself...
>
> Try galeon.
I've avoided it so far, but it might just do for this one. Time to study
again.
> [[snip]]
>
> You do not need gtcd to rip cd's. Install cdparanoia and lame
> (unofficial package). That should do the trick without pulling in the
> gnome libs.
Is there a GUI for that? So far I've been running gtcd + cdparanoia +
blade myself, with gtcd providing the GUI.
> Regards,
>
> --
> Sridhar M.A. mas at uomphysics dot net
Thank you - quite a few things for me to look into.
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