[TriLUG] Linux desktop enthusiasm challenged

[Dan Chen]

On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 04:55:02PM -0500, Michael Mueller wrote:
> Well I've had quite a day playing with a buggy Evolution 0.13 POP mail
> client.  It certainly shows promise.  SHould I pay $30 for the 1.0
> release? 

Eh? I'm at Ximian's site right now, and it appears you can download
the entire shebang for free (connection time notwithstanding).

With that thought in mind, I would just download 1.0.

> The Netscape/Mozilla POP clients were not well geared toward having
> multiple POP accounts (I have 8).  Finding other GUI POP clients yields
> quite a crop of 0.x.x releases.  Do I have to use Mutt or Pine to get
> reliability in a free email client?

Of course you don't have to use Mutt or Pine if you don't wish. Mutt
has handled my myriad accounts wonderfully (at last count I have 20).
If you think Evolution might be better, go for it. Then there's KMail
for KDE. And then there's Sylpheed, etc., etc.

> I downloaded one of the 0.x.x GUI clients to give it a whirl.  During
> the ./configure it complained about not finding glib.  What???  I

Glib. Part of GTK+.

> selected developer options when I installed.  I even had to rpm
> ncurses5-devel-blah-blah to do a make menuconfig.  I did not have these

Yes, soon to be fixed in 2.5 with the inclusion of Eric S. Raymond's
CML2. Of course then you'll need Python2...

> developer issues with RH6.1.  Where did I screw up?  SHould I reinstall
> or go forward and rpm stuff as needed?

No need to reinstall. You should be able to continue.

> Then I thought of trying out the CD player.  GNOME CD player can't read
> the music CD well enough to even eject the CD. (sigh...)  I get a
> message asking if I compiled in support for CDs.  (Gee, I dunno.  I just

Permissions problem?

> loaded the machine from 3 CDs.) Any hints on playing music CDs?  Start

ATAPI or SCSI cdrom(r/w)? Should be straightforward.

> by reading another HOWTO?  I just want to listen to a CD - not become an
> expert on CDs (whine).
> 
> Should I reinstall KDE instead of GNOME for a different set of POP
> clients and CD players?

If that'll suit you, then go ahead. Most people find KDE to be more
polished than GNOME. Try KDE 2.2.2. There are RH 7.2 RPMS.

-- 
Dan Chen                 crimsun at email.unc.edu
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