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Anonymous   06-14-2001 at 10:56:49 AM

Hi. Wow, I heard the fonts in Netscape were ugly, and that was no joke! Anyway I was wondering if there is an easier way to get online without having tojump out to the shell and using setserial. And how come my connection hangs when I'm not logged on as root? I'm pretty new to this -- just installed it today although I did fool around with Linux-Mandrake 7.1 for a while. I feel like just getting online was a major accomplishment. I'd appreciate any help I can get -- other than a UNIX class long ago I'm a total newbie at this...

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Kelledin   06-14-2001 at 03:36:20 PM
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Well, you could put the setserial stuff in rc.local (usually /etc/rc.d/rc.local), where it should get executed on every boot. As for the connection hanging...it's possible that the connect script is doing something that only root is allowed to do. One way to find out:

Go to a terminal, log in as root, and type "tail -f /var/log/messages".
Go to another terminal, log in as an unprivileged user, and start your PPP connection script.
Flip to the first terminal and see what appears in your /var/log/messages file. That could tell you something about what's going wrong...

As for ugly fonts in Netscape...there are a few ways to work with this. KDE's Konqueror is a decent (though not quite fully functional) web browser. There's also <A HREF="http://www.mozilla.org/" target="_new">Mozilla</A>, a browser based on Netscape code but much improved. Even though Mozilla is still "beta," it's a great deal more stable than Netscape and can import Netscape plug-ins. Yet another option is Opera for Linux.

Kelledin

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Philisoft   06-15-2001 at 04:27:52 AM
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Opera is the best browser I have ever seen, and I use it in windows. The newer versios have tab technology which makes having 30 web pages open a breeze; its functionality far surpasses that of Netscape and IE. The only problem is it lags behind IE and Netscape in page viewing technology, such the newest technologies like DHTML etc (I believe it supports it, and others, just usually not as well as IE or nescape) because IE and netscape define the web and those technologies. Since I use it in windows, and there is no IE in windows, I will be using Opera in linux. It has some stability issues though in windows 2000, which is suprising. No less than that of Netscape, but it crashes definatley more than IE would.

Try Opera.


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