For a easy to use point and click Graphical Interface that is simplair to the Mac, I would recommened KDE or GNOME as the windows manager. If it a really nice Interface and they both keep all those dam cyptic Unix commands away from the user, so they don't have to mess with them. They both are excellent windows manager. If you are using KDE there is a program called KPPP which is very much like DUN (Dial Up Networking) in Windows 95/98, personally I think it is easier to use because it can't conflict with anything like Network Neghborhood,etc . Netscape is ussually installed by default, check out the /opt directory and look for a Netscape subdirectory. If I remeber correctly the default setup for SuSE 5.3 and SuSE 6.3 is to install KDE as the default windows manager and to put a Netscape icon on the desktop. If KDE is install you should be able to find KPPP under 'menu->Internet->kppp' After you have gotten it configured, all the user should have to do is click on KPPP, click connect, click on the Netscape and then they are on the Information Super Highway : ) There is the Netscape Mail client also, or Kmail, which both are really nice graphically email clients which most users should be comfortable with. Some people don't think Linux could be used on the "typical" users desktop PC. Most people want to reap the benifits of the Internet without have to deal without this techon blabble. If a Linux system running KDE/Gnome is /per/-configured for the user, I think it could be used by normal users just as easy as Mac/Windows. If you take the time and do all the "leg work" for her, you can setup a really nice, user freindly envoirment with KDE or Gnome. Jack ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim Osborn <jimo@eskimo.com> To: <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: Friday, December 31, 1999 7:48 PM Subject: [SLE] Graphical WWW access in SuSE 6.3?

I'm preparing to upgrade my SuSE 5.3 to 6.3. One of my major goals for this upgrade is graphical access to the web, so my wife can use it too (I currently use Lynx from my ISP shell account).

For some reason I can find absolutely no mention of this subject in my SuSE 6.3 book. The "SuSE Linux-FAQ" appendix F says,

"How do I access the Internet with Linux? Information on this can be found in the handbook chapter 7, p 159."

Whereupon we find information on setting up PPP and ISDN as well as configuring Sendmail and Leafnode News. There are even sixteen pages on Faxing! But nothing at all on the web.

Presumably web access is through Netscape, for which there are four page numbers in the book's index. But these are just casual mentions such as the one on pg 182: "There are several tools for reading news... Even Netscape or Emacs may be used."

Somehow I must connect Netscape to my PPP account, and by implication to my entire "network." Is this connection so intuitively obvious that it warrants no mention at all in the book? In a world where Apple is cleaning up by advertising they'll have you on the web within ten minutes of uncrating your iMac, shouldn't there be some rudimentary guidance on getting to the web under SuSE Linux?

I assume the latest Netscape for Linux is on the SuSE 6.3 CDs?

I've read the WWW-Howto that's on my old SuSE 5.3 installation, and it gives some brief information about installing Netscape, but it doesn't address the question of actually connecting it to the network. Is it as simple as having /dev/modem properly defined? Aren't there some security issues to be careful about?

Could someone point me to where to start the learning process? Sorry if all these questions are obvious; at this point, they aren't obvious to me.

TIA

jimo@eskimo.com

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