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  • From: "Julio Borges" <jb_linux21 AT hotmail.com>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: RE: [BL] Linux does it better
  • Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 22:02:50 +0000

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

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