[LUGSB] Mandriva...Fed 4 on the desktop...

[fitchtom at honestsql.net]

I remember that, and that's exactly what it looked like.  The sizes were off 
and they were rough on the edges like.

It was a fresh install then all the patches.  I hadn't been in preferences 
yet.  I'll see what Discovery provides, maybe give it another chance.  I 
have friends who rave about it so I was like wth!?.

This was like a first glance and I've been spoiled by XP and Turbo10, so I 
should give it another try.

What are you using?









----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vinay Pai" <vinay at cs.sunysb.edu>
To: "Linux Users Group at Stony Brook" <lugsb at fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: [LUGSB] Mandriva...Fed 4 on the desktop...


>> It comes with the Firefox browser which I had heard good things about.  I
>> didn't like it at all.  The fonts are all weird, maybe its because too 
>> many
>> people write their sites to work with IE, but even when you are 
>> downloading
>> a file it does not give you a status bar, in fact you get no indication
>> whatsoever what is going on.  You just have to wait and hope its working
>> which is very unnerving indeed.  I'll go back to Opera or Konqueror thank
>> you.
>
> What exactly is your issue with Firefox?  Linux *used* to have issues
> with fonts not being anti-aliased and so forth, but all those issues
> were laid to rest several years ago.
>
> As for giving indication when you're downloading, it pops up the
> "download manager" window when you're downloading something unless
> you've turned it off in the preferences.  (Preferences->Downloads)
>
>
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