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Re: [SLE] Linux newbie thoughts ....
- From: Ron Cordell <roncordell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 18:48:04 -0400
- Message-id: <01061518480400.07234@linux>
On Friday 15 June 2001 09:19, Derek Fountain wrote:
> Netscape is a piece of crap. You're hardly the only one to suffer with
> that! Ironically, the problem you hightlight - small fonts - is actually
> not a Netscape fault. It's due to some web site designers designing only
> for Windows clients. You can get a set of fonts which look and scale just
> like the default ones used by IE5; installing those makes Netscape much
> more usable.
>
Derek, where are those fonts located? Someone posted that recently, but I
can't find it in the mail list archives.
> I downloaded Forte for Java and it worked straight "out of the box". Sounds
> like the magazine distribution of it is screwed up. Also, it could be your
> Java installation - that might explain the Oracle problem too, because that
> has a Java based installer.
>
>
Neil, I have both Oracle 8.1.7 and Forte/NetBeans working well on my Linux
box. I use Oracle for much of my work. I can help you there.
-ronc
> Netscape is a piece of crap. You're hardly the only one to suffer with
> that! Ironically, the problem you hightlight - small fonts - is actually
> not a Netscape fault. It's due to some web site designers designing only
> for Windows clients. You can get a set of fonts which look and scale just
> like the default ones used by IE5; installing those makes Netscape much
> more usable.
>
Derek, where are those fonts located? Someone posted that recently, but I
can't find it in the mail list archives.
> I downloaded Forte for Java and it worked straight "out of the box". Sounds
> like the magazine distribution of it is screwed up. Also, it could be your
> Java installation - that might explain the Oracle problem too, because that
> has a Java based installer.
>
>
Neil, I have both Oracle 8.1.7 and Forte/NetBeans working well on my Linux
box. I use Oracle for much of my work. I can help you there.
-ronc
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