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["Julio Borges" <jb_linux21 AT hotmail.com>]

I envy you!
I'm working with linux for 6 months and hadn't accomplished so many tasks.
I already use linux most of the times but still have to dispose US50.00 to 
buy windows xp.
I have a Pentium IV 3.2, 1.0 Giga RAM, 120 Giga Hd, Nvidia GeForce II 400 
and Excelent Plextor cd burner.
I hadn't managed to make the GeForce to be installed in linux (only fb 
800x600). Neither to make my CMI 8378 5.1 (Six channels) to work properly 
(only send signal to 4 channels).
With a so big machine I installed Kurumin 4.0 (a Brazilian flavor of 
Knoppix). I haven't managed to install Knoppix either (don connect to 
internet via pppoe).
Thanks for the good news. I'll keep myself trying.
Julio Borges
Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

>From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
>Reply-To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
>To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
>Subject: [BL] Linux does it better
>Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 13:38:58 +0000 (UTC)
>
>I have finally accomplished the goal I set myself two years ago of
>no longer needing Windows for anything, as of yesterday when I got
>the scanner and Abiword working.  I needed a combination of BL2, BL3
>and DOS and some parts of SW81.
>
>1.  Copying CDs with cdda2wav (from SW81) or readcd and cdrecord
>(from SW71) except for one burner that won't work with BL2 but does
>work with DOS cdroast (but I don't know of a way to burn music CDs
>in DOS - is there one?).  The bug in cdrecord has been fixed in a
>recent kernel 2.6 so if I ever learn to compile my own kernel and
>modules I could use the new kernel with BL2.
>
>2.  Realaudio (but it only works on one BL2 computer so far and
>segfaults everwhere else, even if I move the nonworking hard drive
>to that one computer where the original drive works).  Needs SW81
>glibc.
>
>3.  Scanner - BL2 with the SW81 sane 1.0.8 package and the SW81
>adaptec.s kernel works with a UMAX 610S scsi (no parport support for
>umax) but I could not get it working with SW71 kernel and aic7xxx.o
>(won't find the scanner).  Nor will my other computer with SANE 0.57
>(which I compiled) find the HP scanner that works in win31, though
>it at least finds pnm devices.
>
>Scanimage is much simpler and faster to use - CLI instead of a big
>colored 3D gui with tooltips, and I don't need a mouse for it.
>
>
>4.  Opera 7 (with SW81 glibc) - and also Firebird or whatever they
>were calling last year's version.  And lynx 2.8.5.1 but that works
>in DOS.
>
>5.  xpdf for viewing the most recent (pdf 1.5 and JBIG2) pdf files,
>tho DOS has convertors to images or text (if you have a page with
>both of them you need to have a good imagination).  Available
>precompiled for SW81 glibc.  My last challenge is gs 8.50, since the
>DOS port is a bit slow and is not set to do JBIG2.
>
>It is interesting that I needed SW81 glibc or kernel or packages to
>get all of these to work.  Perhaps some day when pentium laptops can
>be found in dumpsters there will be a BL4 based on SW81.
>
>6.  Yesterday I got BL3 abiword working (in BL2 it won't work with
>my XVESA setup due to a problem finding fonts or something) so I can
>now maybe stop using WORDVIEW.  Antiword and catdoc missed sections
>of some WORD files sent me, but so did wvware, which is used in
>Abiword.  People do however seem capable of converting WORD to rtf
>for me sometimes.
>And WORDVIEW is only for Word 97 but Antiword is more up to date.
>And WORD cannot convert to text and preserve charsets like the
>linux/DOS convertors  -  all the 'foreign' characters become ? ??
>??? ? .
>
>7.  With much help from Christof, I can now print Czech and other
>Latin2 characters as downloadable fonts on an Epson LQ.  In DOS
>copy/b FONT lpt1. Can this be done with cat FONT > lp0?  Do I need
>some switch equivalent to /b?  He says the fonts can be loaded in
>DOS and used in linux.
>
>I was not using Windows for anything else.  What do other people
>still need it for that linux cannot do?
>
>
>keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
>SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
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