On Tuesday 30 January 2001 08:36, Fergus Wilde wrote:
Right enough here, Jerry,
I know I've just had an extended moan about browsers, but Netscape has topped itself this week by crashing every time I tried to show the value of various forms of *nix to the interested but wary. Netscape 6 just locked the keyboard and mouse of a Solaris 8 installation I was messing with, leading to a hard reset (standalone machine), and it did the same here yesterday, with SuSE 6.4, though I could ssh in and sort things out manually. So since last Thursday I've had 3 people telling me 'I never have this problem with Windows'. It's one thing our knowing that it's not *nix that has crashed, only the windowmanager or whatever, but if you end up having to press the reset button the result is much the same in the eyes of the Windows user you've just been preaching to.
Konqueror is really nice, but the 2.0.1 I have here has SIGSEV'd three times today on various sites which seemed unexceptionable to
mmm... I am running KDE 2.0.1 but I am using qt-2.2.2, which I compiled with graphic support. I had removed KDE1.x and qt-1.4x completely. On my box Konqueror never crashes, and KWord crashes rarely. In the past I've observed that frequent crashing of X-window apps can mean an improperly installed x-server and video driver. JLK
the dreaded MS Explorer. Mind you, I think competing with Word and Excel is an even bigger problem when it comes to winning over the desktop. Word is now very bloated, but it's still a fairly effective thing if you want to do a lot of complicated things in a graphical editing environment, and above all it's got such enormous market share it will be very hard to see off.
Keep the faith Fergus
The
The battle is far from over and Linux could still lose. The big problem is the browser arena. If M$s share of the web browser continues to grow it could leverage Linux out of the server room and off the Internet.
Mozilla has so far failed to step up the plate with a browser that people can trust. They got sidetracked into thinking they were an OS. Konqueror, IMO, is the best Linux based browser out there and the only one with the correct paradigm and active development crew to meet the challange. GNOME is too difficult to develop for, so I don't look for any solution to come from MZ or GNOME anytime soon.
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