Re: bloody newbies

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Graham Spearing wrote:

> Another old newbie here...

I find it amazing when people refer to themselves as 'old newbies',
'oldbies', etc., it's extremely humble . . . ;) Get a grip people, you're
techies and you know it ;))

> Browser
> Mail Client
> File Manager
> Graphics Package
> Wordprocessor

Just to be controversial, I'm going to say that I think my choices would
change in the next few months. E.g., my current browser on my laptop is
Mozilla M12, soon to be updated to Moz Nightly. People reckon that a
beta-quality release will occur around M14, mid-March time IIRC. Also,
KDE2 will be getting near completion in March IIRC, so Mail Client, FM
will both go to Konqueror ... possibly KImageShop will be ready along with
the rest of KOffice.. plus, mid-March will see 2.4 (I reckon ;), and (not
for ne, but for others ;) a release of Debian-Woody. March is gonna be one
heck of a month ;))

> It would be really helpful for us non techies, though it may be a bit
> below you command line gurus!

The main reason I use a command line currently is the lack of decent
development environments in X. KDevelop is beginning to win me over,
although I don't think it will be absolutely ready for my needs til
version 2, and even then it prolly. won't have support for Ada, etc.
However, I did download KDEStudio today, which looks *extremely*
interesting. No doubt I'll be telling you all what I think of it
tomorrow..

> I am unsubscribing and switching to my new email address:
>
> graham [at] tux.uklinux.net!!

Good luck!

Cheers,

Alex.

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