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Faust:
so far i just haven't seen a single decent free software program that isn't apt-get able.  I mean jesus these people have made the anarchists FAQ apt-getable for goods sake!  just yesterday I tried -

#apt-get install kitchen_sink

and it worked!

Calum:
well phoenix is open source, you can get binaries at mozilla.org for OS/2, linux/i386 and win32, and probably others, however i did notice that the red hat 8 repository at freshrpms has an rpm of phoenix 0.5 in it, meaning that if you have red hat 8, you can just apt-get phoenix and that's it.

there are two things about that - one i don't know if apt has those for non RH8 linuces, also i strongly recommend using the latest phoenix nightly. it's a lot nicer (and ironically more stable!) than the most recent 'stable' version, which is 0.5. all you need to do is download the binary tarball from mozilla.org, untar it into /usr/local (or i prefer /opt) and drop a symlink into /usr/bin and you're away. i'd take this method over the rpm method because you know where all the phoenix files are (in /opt/phoenix) instead of rpmd all over the place. just my opinion.

i find many sites do not work in dillo, sadly, dillo is great and is stable, but is only as good at rendering webpages to about the standard of netscape 1 or so. this is no bad thing, that's a lot better than nothing, plus it does it while still weighing in at 300k!

[ April 15, 2003: Message edited by: Calum: crusader for peace & freedom ]

fox:
Ok, first, thanks for the answers.

About the file managers, I downloaded some and I'm going to test'em when I get som time.

So you say the highest versions are ok?
Yep, I suposed so, as long as I stay away from Gnome2 and KDE3...

No OpenOffice? Alrigth, I'll give a look at that Siag thing (I hadn't heard of it before)
Or else I'll have to stick with Abi... if it worked...

Any idea of what could be wrong with abiword?
It lets me open, save, select and change the formating of the text, and insert newlines, spaces and tabs, and erasing text... but it just refuses to understand any other keypress, I even tried to press ALT+ some ascii code, but again, only newlines and spaces are acepted. It's really weird.

fox:
Oh, and about Dillo, I kinda like it, so bad it can't handle forms in a proper way (I could stand all the others drawbacks, but not that one)

Anyway, Phoenix works fine (just a bit solw on startup), so why bother?

Siplus:
hmm...i really have no idea what could be wrong, and i'm just curious:
try to copy and paste a word into abiword. i doubt it'll help us, but if it doesn't even show a pasted word, then you know something's really messed up

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