Re: New Linux newbie

[Richard <nospam [at] sheflug.co.uk>]

Harvey Kelly wrote:

 
> Yeah, I had a poke around at Freshmeat (ooh er, missus), but there seems to be
> up to twenty programs that can do whatever he requires, I was just wondering if
> there's one that stands head and shoulders above the rest that I'm unaware of.
> And, sorry, completely forgot about sheflug.co.uk.

Don't know.  My usual thing is to download and compile all of them. 
One of them is always better than the rest ? In the SuSE distro
there's Arcad and Ac3D.  Both of them very good.  You can probably
find a download URL from somewhere ?  I'm not to sure just now ?

> I'll recommend OpenLinux eDesktop 2.4, and steer him towards the things you've
> suggested above then?

Try it and see what happens.  If not fall back on to SuSE 6.4.  It's
the next best thing for scanners.  I know that Red Hat can be used for
this kind of thing but we haven't seen the 6.2 version working with a
scanner or ISDN so far.

Come back when you get bored/ fed up ?

Thanks

-- 
Richard
Sheffield UK

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