Re: [PLUG] Ideal Linux Desktop Distro

2005-03-18 Thread Navtej Singh
does explore2fs supports ReiserFS? I dont think so. Question from his original post : Could any body point to a Tool that allows Access to ReiserFS from win. >From explore2fs homepage read the second point under the heading "Features that are not planned" * Reiserfs support. Reiser has nothi

Re: [PLUG] Ideal Linux Desktop Distro

2005-03-17 Thread Manas Alekar
Hello All! I have 'not' been following this thread. And intentionally too! But, finally, I have given in to the temptation. My answer to "the question" is: 1) Mandrake 10 2) Mandrake 10 3) gnumeric, abiword 4) dillo, sylpheed 5) Explore2fs is the name of the programme. The link is : http://ur

Re: [PLUG] Ideal Linux Desktop Distro

2005-03-17 Thread Kaustubh Gadkari
> > 4) A light webbrowser and Mail Client (Mozilla was earlier bundled) > > Firefox has taken care of this :-). Evolution and thunderbird shine here. > > > > Evolution?? Light?? Man, you must be having a big fat processor with big > fat RAM. > Hmm...Evolution 2.0 seems to be quite a bit lighter

Re: [PLUG] Ideal Linux Desktop Distro

2005-03-17 Thread A G
> You can either pay for broadband and download the > latest distros and > updates, or pay for commercial CDs like those that > Mandrake or Suse > provide, avoid crap like Xandros, Linspire etc etc > (again, when I say > 'crap' thats just my opinion/blah) I dont know abt Linspire, but xandros inst

Re: [PLUG] Ideal Linux Desktop Distro

2005-03-16 Thread Viraj Paripatyadar
Hi All, since all are putting in many good things about Linux Desktop distros, let me put in my two cents by talking about the distro that I use wrt the following questions. Now, TurboLinux 10D, as someone once said to me, is a rich man's Linux, in the sense that there really isn't much left to t

Re: [PLUG] Ideal Linux Desktop Distro

2005-03-16 Thread Vishal Rao
> On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 21:30:23 +0530, Kedar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please let me know any comments/suggestions . Please also let me know > > what you would like to see in a "Ideal Desktop Linux Distro". Yup, everytime a n00b comes out and asks this, the nerds go off on their PR campaigns..

Re: [PLUG] Ideal Linux Desktop Distro

2005-03-16 Thread Navtej Singh
hey, comments inline. On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 21:30:23 +0530, Kedar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > I was just thinking what things would be nessesary to create a Ideal > Desktop Linux Distro. When I say "Ideal" I mean that a Newbie should be > able to operate it and should feel that it is more

Re: [PLUG] Ideal Linux Desktop Distro

2005-03-16 Thread Aditya Godbole
Kedar wrote: Hi All, I was just thinking what things would be nessesary to create a Ideal Desktop Linux Distro. When I say "Ideal" I mean that a Newbie should be able to operate it and should feel that it is more easier/as easy to operate as Windows. Well, you can't have everything. With the eas

Re: [PLUG] Ideal Linux Desktop Distro

2005-03-16 Thread Steve
Hi, On Wednesday 16 Mar 2005 8:34 pm, Steve wrote: > Hi Kedar, > > On Tuesday 15 Mar 2005 9:30 pm, Kedar wrote: > > Hi All, > > I was just thinking what things would be nessesary to create a Ideal > > Desktop Linux Distro. When I say "Ideal" I mean that a Newbie should be > > able to operate it an

Re: [PLUG] Ideal Linux Desktop Distro

2005-03-16 Thread Steve
Hi Kedar, On Tuesday 15 Mar 2005 9:30 pm, Kedar wrote: > Hi All, > I was just thinking what things would be nessesary to create a Ideal > Desktop Linux Distro. When I say "Ideal" I mean that a Newbie should be > able to operate it and should feel that it is more easier/as easy to > operate as Windo

Re: [PLUG] Ideal Linux Desktop Distro

2005-03-16 Thread BAIN
> I found current Desktop Distros lacking certain features . I have listed > them below. > 1) Lack of a graphical application installers (aka Installsheild) and a Which distro are you using? Most of them are having this feature, infact almost all the things from here on sound like a cry from la

Re: [PLUG] Ideal Linux Desktop Distro

2005-03-15 Thread Sumeet Madhukar Moghe
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 21:30, Kedar wrote: > Hi All, > I was just thinking what things would be nessesary to create a Ideal > Desktop Linux Distro. When I say "Ideal" I mean that a Newbie should be > able to operate it and should feel that it is more easier/as easy to > operate as Windows. See,

Re: [PLUG] Ideal Linux Desktop Distro

2005-03-15 Thread Vishal Rao
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 21:30:23 +0530, Kedar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > I was just thinking what things would be nessesary to create a Ideal > Desktop Linux Distro. When I say "Ideal" I mean that a Newbie should be > able to operate it and should feel that it is more easier/as easy to > op

[PLUG] Ideal Linux Desktop Distro

2005-03-15 Thread Kedar
Hi All, I was just thinking what things would be nessesary to create a Ideal Desktop Linux Distro. When I say "Ideal" I mean that a Newbie should be able to operate it and should feel that it is more easier/as easy to operate as Windows. I found current Desktop Distros lacking certain features