Re: WARNING to potential LINUX users

From: markzoom (markzoom_at_digiverse.net)
Date: 10/21/04 

Date: 20 Oct 2004 17:18:03 -0700

David Wright <david_c_wright@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<cl63lp$ahe$00$2@news.t-online.com>...
> markzoom wrote:
>
> > Timo Pirinen <pirisisi@dlc.fi> wrote in message
> > news:<2tmh3iF1vdq73U1@uni-berlin.de>...
> >> markzoom wrote:
> >> > Anund Rannestad
> >> >> you want to
> >> >>install, right-click -> Actions -> install with Yast...
> >> >
> >> > and a newbie should know this how?
> >>
> >> Nah, a newbie would just click the rpm
> >
> > A newbie takes rpm to be rotational speed.
> >
> >> in Konq and see the huge 'Install
> >> with Yast' button smack in the middle of the window. The right-click
> >> instruction thingy is meant as help for *you*, seeing how left-clicking
> >> files is a lost art to you.
> >
> > I suggest you actually go and try the above with Mozilla Firefox.
> > M.K.
>
> Been there (downloaded the firefox 0.10 preview release from the SuSE ftp
> site),

The newbie was unable to find the Mozilla Firefox preview on the (UK)
Suse ftp site as mentioned above, he downloaded it from Mozilla.

> done that (clicked on it with the left mouse button (well, double
> click, turned single clicking off), it changed the view to a description of
> the file and a big "Install with YaST" button,

No such button when I do it.

> clicked on that, it put a
> new button in the Internet->Web Browsers sub menu off the
> action/start/whatever menu), got the t-shirt (use Firefox 1.0 Preview as my
> main browser on 3 different machines under 2 OS's - SuSE and XP; XP was as
> simple to install, apart from there were a few more "Next" buttons to click
> on after I started the install process).

I'm posting this with Firefox through google, but using windows. I'm
wondering wether using Firefox will remain a good idea though, since
it's VERY chummy with Google's new owners who might conspire to engage
in devious trickery and unsporting behaviour.
Mark K.

>
> Dave