Re: WARNING to potential LINUX users

From: David Wright (david_c_wright_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/21/04 

Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:18:55 +0200

markzoom wrote:

> 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.

See my other reply, the .tar.gz version is generic for all versions of Linux
(with the right libraries installed!), SuSE have a RPMed version available.
Although I must admit, Mozilla must work on their installation routines,
theirs are needlessly messianic...

>> 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.

Let's hope not, but as it is open source, it would be difficult to hide, and
if it did, the uproar would be so great, it would die on the spot...

Dave