06290508.txt 29-Jun-00


Subject: Re: Linux ??
From: "K.A. Steensma" <airways@flash.net>

You have to be a little careful with Mandrake.  I installed
  it (I'm an old RedHat user and know RedHat Version 6.2
  pretty well; I run it as a Samba server, DOS emulation
  box, and Internet gateway) and set the 'security' level up
  to what I thought was appropriate.  Boy, did I make a
  wrong selection.  The box was doing all kinds of things
  that I didn't understand.  I finally reloaded it (started
  over) at a lower (normal) security level and found it very
  much like RedHat, but a whole bunch better in certain
  areas.  I used it as a desktop with GNOME to (begin with)
  but switched over to KDE.  I like it better for how it can
  be configured and used, but like a lot of the GNOME
  utilities better for machine configuring.
One question (now we're really off-topic).  I have never
  been able to stop Netscape from loading the Mandrake
  advertisement screen at the startup of Netscape.  Can I
  just delete the file and get away with it?  I have found
  the Netscape Communicator (on any distro of Linux) to be
  unstable, but the Netscape Navigator to be much more
  useable.
Anyway, I store and run almost all my Windows programs on my
  Win98 box via the network RedHat server.  The Samba
  interface handles even my Clipper development work
  (storing source code and running the Clipper compiler)
  right from the RedHat hard drive (hope I phrased this
  correctly).  I have several customers doing the same thing
  (with the compiled Clipper programs and their databases).
  They even use dial-up access and run the same Clipper
  programs via the MSDOS emulator.

Keith