On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 09:27:47PM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 02:57:58PM +0000, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > > > - Icewm - not gnome. (it seems lightweight) Alternatives welcome. > > Try fluxbox. It is fast and light. I particularly like its tabbed > window arrangement. Hadn't heard of that one. I'll study that. > For a file manager, use rox. If your friend is comfortable with a text > interface, emelfm should be very good. Which package is rox in? An "apt-cache search" turns up lots of proxies and the roxen challenger webserver, but nothing that looks like a file manager. packages.debian.org doesn't seem to know either. > > - Mail client - sylpheed? (there was a discussion on debian-user about > > this recently. I need to read up on that) > > Why not mutt? I love mutt. But I don't think it will be suitable for somebody who wants to learn to use computers - especially unattended. I suspect that mutt will be too daunting. > [[snip]] > > > - Browser? Will mozilla be too heavyweight? I like mozilla myself... > > Try galeon. I've avoided it so far, but it might just do for this one. Time to study again. > [[snip]] > > You do not need gtcd to rip cd's. Install cdparanoia and lame > (unofficial package). That should do the trick without pulling in the > gnome libs. Is there a GUI for that? So far I've been running gtcd + cdparanoia + blade myself, with gtcd providing the GUI. > Regards, > > -- > Sridhar M.A. mas at uomphysics dot net Thank you - quite a few things for me to look into. -- Karl E. Jørgensen karl@jorgensen.com www.karl.jorgensen.com ==== Today's fortune: Between infinite and short there is a big difference. -- G.H. Gonnet
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