A step backwards

[Ben Duncan]

Or SuSe 8.0. FWIW, have been running NutScrape 7.0 for Linux, and 
other than a few quirks
(For some reason a HTML email with embedded java script drives it 
nuts), has worked
admirably for me. YOu will have to download NS7 or get the CD.

Net Llama! wrote:
> My suggestion is to dump Caldera, and install Redhat.  I've never had 
> any of those problems with Redhat-7.2 or 7.3.
> 
> Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> 
>> My wife's Windows software got so hosed last week that it was impossible
>> to even read a CD, to reinstall Windows.  So it was either reformat the
>> partition and start over, or install Linux.  Happily, she let me install
>> Linux, and I chose COL 3.1.1 WS.
>>
>> Unfortunately, things did not go well.  I've heard this story before,
>> most recently from dep.  But this time, even though I am right here,
>> and doing the heavy lifting, I'm going to put Windows back on the
>> machine, I think.
>>
>> The problems:
>>    Netscape that came with it ran a couple of times, got into trouble,
>>    and will no longer run.
>>
>>    Mozilla 1.0 mail is balky, and my wife can't stand it.  I'm running
>>    fetchmail because Moz couldn't talk POP to the ISP (though that was
>>    originally working with Netscape).  Then I have MOZ using imap to
>>    get at /var/spool/mail/<her> because MOZ doesn't seem to have a
>>    Movemail.  But after reading a single email, it goes haywire and
>>    needs MOZ to be shut down and restarted or else all attempts to
>>    deal with mail get wedged forever.  I can't find anything useful
>>    in /var/log/messages or /var/log/mail.
>>
>>    My wife is fed up.  She says it used to be fun, and this is no fun
>>    at all.
>>
>> So unless I have a brainstorm tonight, I will reformat and reinstall
>> Windoze on this beast.  Sigh.
>>
>> Linux on the desktop?  For diehard geeks like myself, sure.  But not
>> for anyone else.
>>
>> ++ kevin
>>
>>
>>
> 


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