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From: Richard Bonner on 18 Dec 2009 11:05 BillW50 (BillW50(a)aol.kom) wrote: > Richard Bonner typed: > > A Linux distro I'd recommend for Windows users is Knoppix with > > the KDE desktop. > Xandros also uses KDE desktop. They come with Asus EeePCs. Although they > are set up to use easy mode vs. advanced mode which looks a lot more > like Windows. Although it is hard to find updated applications or > applications in general for KDE. For example, I haven't seen anything > newer than Firefox 2.0 yet for it. Although I haven't checked in a few > months. > -- > Bill *** I haven't fired up Knoppix in some time, so I was unaware that newer applications were not available. I recommended it because it seems easy for Windows users to catch on to it. -- Richard Bonner http://www.chebucto.ca/~ak621/DOS/
From: Richard Bonner on 18 Dec 2009 11:11 BillW50 (BillW50(a)aol.kom) wrote: > Richard Bonner typed: > > AJL (339(a)fakeaddress.com) wrote: > >> From what I can tell in my local (Phoenix) big box stores the public > >> here has spoken. I no longer see any 7 or 9" netbooks, 10" seems to > >> be the smallest. And I haven't seen a Linux powered netbook in > >> months. So whether an underpowered tiny screened netbook without > >> Windows would sell or not is yet to be seen... > > > > *** I would think that people would tend to go for a handheld as > > opposed to a smaller-screened netbook. > I used my Palms a lot over the many years. Although I quickly got a real > keyboard for the thing. As replying to email and newsgroups was a real > pain without a keyboard. *** I used to have a Casio PDA; it had a small screen but did sport a full, albeit small, keyboard. > webpages are too small on PDAs too. > -- > Bill *** True, but I see a lot of students using them at schools - probably because they are cheap, portable, and most schools here offer free wireless to any student on campus. PDAs are OK for a quick surf of a site for immediate-info usage but require a lot of side scrolling or zooming to see a typical page. It would help if webpage authors designed their sites to float so as to shrink or enlarge to fit a given browser window. -- Richard Bonner http://www.chebucto.ca/~ak621/DOS/
From: Richard Bonner on 18 Dec 2009 11:16 AJL (340(a)fakeaddress.com) wrote: > ak621(a)chebucto.ns.ca (Richard Bonner) wrote: > >*** I would think that people would tend to go for a handheld as opposed > >to a smaller-screened netbook. > Except for the mobile sites it gets tiresome scrolling on the tiny > screen of a PDA. (Snip) *** That is why I design my webpages to float so they will shrink or enlarge to fill the given browser window. Of course, on really small screens, one has to zoom to read the text. However, it does mean that the full width can be seen at a glance. That allows navigation to the wanted area; then one can enlarge that section. Again, I am not saying that these are *the* portable devices for websurfing, but for fast checks of information, they will suffice. -- Richard Bonner http://www.chebucto.ca/~ak621/DOS/
From: Richard Bonner on 18 Dec 2009 11:18 BillW50 (BillW50(a)aol.kom) wrote: > Carrying a netbook is no worse than carrying a small book. It sure beats > carrying around a laptop. And it takes up barely more room than my Palm > IIIc with its folding keyboard. Plus it is tons more useful and has a > far better keyboard to boot. And no stylist to use or lose either. > -- > Bill *** You travel with your own stylist? Wow! You're like a rockstar! (-: -- Richard Bonner http://www.chebucto.ca/~ak621/DOS/
From: Richard Bonner on 18 Dec 2009 11:19
BillW50 (BillW50(a)aol.kom) wrote: > I was just playing a WMA file under Linux and opened up the Add/Remove > utility and then the Music Manager player locked up. Killed the process > and now it says that file is gone from my flash disk. Why people put up > with Linux with the amateurish applications is beyond my comprehension. > -- > Bill *** It's not Linux - it's the amateurish applications. (-: -- Richard Bonner http://www.chebucto.ca/~ak621/DOS/ |