I Want to identify best Linux approach, and any pitfalls. 299

Dances With Crows

No, married. Oh. Yes, Its the same isn't it?

Printing is fine - MAC OS9 understands LPR-LPD. Well almost anyway - and will spit out a postcript stream over it.

Thx.

Ok..so there is ripped libraries around that dare not be sold or openly given away..?

Cheap as in inexpensive,not cheap as in utter crap. I don't want to play games: At best I want to watch video, and do slow high res still graphics work.

Thats no problem..what I mean is that mouse actions are not as hugely arcane as they can be with X..like moving a cursor over a window makes it active - Yuk. I want to click to make it active - stuff like that.

No, its available on Mozilla (Nestcape 8?)..not sure if that is operable on Linux platform. No..seems not.

Thats all I ned. Definite tick there then.

Ok there are low level drivers that recognise a USB device as 'storage' then? one can define a device as a USB storage device..?

Not especially..no. there is a huge overlap, but in general CAD cares more about exact dimensions and very little about appearance of the drawings..whereas artistic stuff will have a lot of features for e.g. textures and shadings..and some moves that disturb and distort things - like wrapping text round a circle for example..if you like its the difference between a graph done on graph paper and a pie chart...:-)

Mmm. I had hoped that sticking to a generic Intel board would be good..

Specifically this one..

Mmm. I don't have a problem either downloading or getting Linux up..nothing could be worse than Interactive Unix 386....however I don't have a ROM burner so getting the download on will require buttistance from friends :-) Only the NEW machine will have that.

Pretty much a full list - thanks for responding. I'd appreciate a comment on that motherboard. As I said, this is less a games machine than a working home office desktop, and I'm on a limited budget. I'd prefer to use a board from my local supplier, simply because we have a 15 year relationship of no questions asked top quality support..he doesn't do AMD..

If I do go for an outboard video card..I have heard that ATI are not hugely compatible..he does XFX cards as well...and one thing I might want to do is go for a 3 meter video cable using digital video (DVI) to an LCD...so I could build the machine into a 19" rack rtather than have it on or under the desk? Pie in the sky?