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Re: books on debian of a beginner nature?



On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 19:22 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Ponyland?
> 
> On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 18:02 +0100, keith wrote:
> > Midnight Commander (MC) is your friend for file management & editing.
> 
> Are you serious?
> 
> > .mp3
> 
> For musicians MP3 crap?
> 
> > Mutt is the usual email program, or (e)pine.
> 
> "Usual MUA" for whom? I won't recommend anything else, even while I'm
> using something different.
> 
> > Lynx or Links (elinks) are your basic web browsers.
> 
> That's a joke, isn't it? C'mon!
> 
> > These on top of a base Debian install, plus a screen reader.
> 
> Regarding to screen readers and braille, MC, Mutt, Alpine etc. might be
> common, but perhaps some much more spread GUI apps are more comfortable,
> depending to the reason, to use a screen reader.
> 
> Perhaps there isn't the need to use a screen reader or braille all the
> times and GUI based apps might be usable too?!
> 
> We don't know the OP!
> 
> 2 Cents,
> Ralf
> 
> 
> 
> 
If you are following this thread, you should have seen that she is using
a dos based system, that's why I have recommended all cli apps!



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