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  From: David Fitch <davidf@parachilna.com>
  To  : <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 16:47:31 +1000

Re: PCs for kids (Geelong)

On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 02:47:42PM +0930, Andrew Reid wrote:
> On 30 Jul 2001 14:37:52 +0930, David Lloyd wrote:
> > Nonetheless I'm yet
> > to find a Linux System that can outdo Microsoft Word, a GUI DBMS that is
> > as easy to use as Access or Paradox or an open source browser that is as
> > good as Internet Explorer.
> 
> Scratches head. Internet Explorer? Eh? That's not a browser. Have you
> looked at Konquerer? It's not too bad at being a file manager, browser
> and all-round nice guy type of application.
> 
> Not knowing about Konquerer I can accept, but calling Internet Explorer
> a "good" browser? That's just plain silly.

not really, having recently tried netscape 4.78, opera (5.0?), mozilla
(0.9.2) (all on same machine, under RH 6.2) and IE 5.5 (same machine,
under vmware/nt) IE and netscape load pages in about the same time
(unfortunately mozilla is noticeably slower) but IE fonts are much nicer
and more pages work better in IE than netscape.

I looked at konquerer but it wants kde libs and I'm running gnome so
I didn't bother.

I was really hoping mozilla would be a nice lean fast browser (without
mail/news reader etc) but it's worse than netscape.  It's better (but
more hassle) to run IE in vmware than anything else.

Dave.

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