On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Karen Lewellen <klewellen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > As for my goals, Âtwo, perhaps three. ÂI have in a sealed box the edition of > wordperfect created for Linux / UNIX. Â unless I am sure this can be run, I > am not going to do word processing, leaving only two. What version of WordPerfect? If it's 8 or 8.1 (or earlier), it should work although you may need to run an older version of the Linux kernel for it. If it's WordPerfect Office 2000, it's an initial port of WP Office for Windows to WINE and is full of show-stopper bugs; no updates were ever issued. Despite considerable involvement in the WordPerfect user community, I know of no one who thinks of it as usable. > browsers. Âif that means ebrowse then terrific, or firefox if it works in > debian. ÂRay keeps speaking of ice Wiesel, but I have not heard enough to > know if this is the best alternative option. Ice Weasel *is* Firefox with the Firefox branding removed because of trademark claims by the Mozilla Foundation making the branded version incompatible with GPL licensing and ineligible for inclusion in Linux distributions whose developers who refuse to ship software that is incompatible with the GPL. Negotiations continue to resolve the trademark issue and if successful will likely result in Ice Weasel becoming a thing of the past. Personally, I almost never use Firefox anymore, only when I need a particular Firefox extension. Google Chrome is a much superior browser, in no small part because each open web page is launched in a separate process. The practical result is that if a given page has problems or is very slow in loading, you can continue to use the browser for other pages, without having to kill the browser's process to recover. Chrome is based on the WebKit page rendering engine, which is also way better than the Mozilla Gecko engine used in Firefox. WebKit is an emerging de facto standard for web browsers and client-side apps that run in a browser. WebKit began its life as the KHTML page rendering engine used by KDE apps. It was picked up and improved by Apple for its Safari browser, then by Google and now again by KDE. Opera is also migrating to WebKit. If you have objections to proprietary software, you might check out Chromium, the open source browser project's code that Google Chrome is based on. <http://www.chromium.org/Home>. But there are far fewer extensions available for it. Best regards, Paul _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list