Windows SP2

[xman]

Been running it for over 24 hours so far it’s been great. Pop up blocking working fine, I like some of the new wireless feature.

-- Dean --

 

[casm]

Pop up blocking working fine,

*Cough* Mozilla *Cough*

 

[sintax]

I seem to be the family systems admin....so I installed it on my parents computer last tuesday and it has been runing well since then. I did disable the Firewall, autoupdate program.

If it hold together for a few more days i'm going to install sp2 onto my sisters workstation and then if that works well i'm going to end up deploying it to my 3 xp boxes.

-Scott

 

[RichP]

*Cough* Mozilla *Cough*

Yup, been installing the new version on all the suns, runs much better than netscape ever did on them, same on linux but the mozilla people have to do a better job on the installer if they ever hope to go mainstream to the home user and that includes all the plug in's. But even sun got it wrong, still took some manual linking to get it to work...

 

[casm]

Yup, been installing the new version on all the suns, runs much better than netscape ever did on them,

I gave up on Netscape under Linux around Netscape 6. How the hell they managed to make it so unwieldy and unresponsive I'll never know, but it put me off of them for good.

same on linux but the mozilla people have to do a better job on the installer if they ever hope to go mainstream to the home user and that includes all the plug in's.

Never had a problem with the Mozilla installer under Slackware - what were the issues you were seeing with it?

But even sun got it wrong, still took some manual linking to get it to work...

Odd... I've had it misplace libraries before, but some symlinking / moving of stuff fixed it fairly easily. That's more the exception than the rule, though.

 

[RichP]

I gave up on Netscape under Linux around Netscape 6. How the hell they managed to make it so unwieldy and unresponsive I'll never know, but it put me off of them for good.



Never had a problem with the Mozilla installer under Slackware - what were the issues you were seeing with it?



Odd... I've had it misplace libraries before, but some symlinking / moving of stuff fixed it fairly easily. That's more the exception than the rule, though.

Try telling that to the home user who bought a linux equipped box off the shelf at walmart or wherever, takes it home, fires it up and surfs to a web site that immeadiately tells him he needs to download and install <insert_favorite_plugin>, then the fun begins. It took ME about 30 minutes to install the new java stuff in mandrake10, I was not happy. It is not ready for prime time yet untill they write the subroutines that check where the directories and exes are located and does the linking itself or at least prompts the user for 'wheres java on this box' with a 'to find java do a cd / find . -name java.* -print' then 'type in its location'...

 

[casm]

Try telling that to the home user who bought a linux equipped box off the shelf at walmart or wherever, takes it home, fires it up and surfs to a web site that immeadiately tells him he needs to download and install <insert_favorite_plugin>, then the fun begins.

Agreed. Then again, I'm of the opinion that Linux makes a lousy desktop OS for the majority of computer users out there. If someone can't cope with using Windows, asking them to deal with Linux is probably way over their head.

I also have my issues with how Linux has changed through the 2.x kernel series, but that's a whole other can of worms.

 

[XJ91]

If you use Microsoft SMS it affects it. SMS stops working... Good thing we tested on a single PC the other day.