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From: "Hilton Travis" <QuarkAudioVisual at email.com>
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Hi Tony,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-general at lists.humbug.org.au 
> [mailto:owner-general at lists.humbug.org.au] On Behalf Of Tony Bilbrough
> 
> G'day Anthony,
> For graphics, I have just learned to use GQview at Humbug. 
> It seems to 'do' most simple art work, and is very easy to 
> use viewer. I think it might be part of the RH 7.1 installation

GIMP is quite OK for simple graphics too.  It's definitely not
PhotoShop, but then most people don't need PhotoShop, either.

> I use Sylpheed for my emailer. It is a bit like Netscape, and 
> though I am having a bit of a hard time with the address book 
> right now, I have been told that the upgrade  [which has been 
> out for a while] will fix that problem up.
> 
> I will be loading SO6 at the next meet.
> I tried installing an earlier beta, quite a while back, but 
> couldn't get it to run outside the root. [even with expert 
> assistance during the meet!]. Hope they have fixed it

Star Office 6.0.  Well, they have removed the desktop and browser (YAY)
and the email/news client and the scheduler/PIM (BOO).  Impress is so
unfriendly to use, I'll be sticking to PowerPoint.  :-(  The text editor
still craps out a lot of things in a Word document, but it is better
than 5.2 so far.  All up, I don't think that SO6 will be the MS Office
beater I was hoping it to be - they have removed some *excellent*
functionality from SO52, and some the I personally disliked.  They
*should have* included the desktop/browser as an option, tho.

As for the not running as other than root issue, in SO52 I had to
install it with the "/net" option when installing to get it to run in
"multiuser" mode.  I have not tried running SO6 under Linux yet, but I'd
guess that this should fix this for you.

Regards,
Hilton


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