Re: Overwhelmed newbie

From: Angelo Bertolli (angelo_at_freeshell.org)
Date: 09/18/05

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To: Oliver Lupton <oliverlupton@gmail.com>

    Oliver Lupton wrote:

    > 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.

    The repositories contain "Dillo" which loads up pretty fast--haven't
    checked the memory usage though. 

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