Re: Overwhelmed newbie

From: Oliver Lupton (oliverlupton_at_gmail.com)
Date: 09/18/05

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    Kent West wrote:

    >Once you have an Internet connection, you're good to go. Most
    >applications you want are available from the official Debian
    >repositories, and it's generally these versions you'll want to install,
    >especially as a newbie. Opera, however, not being "F"ree (although it is
    >"f"ree), is not available from the Debian repositories. Might I suggest
    >Firefox?
    >
    >
    In my experience, Firefox's memory usage is somewhere similar or above
    the total RAM in his system, though that may just be something messed up
    by me.

    -ol 

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