eracc

Howdy Mandr* USENET denizens.

I have been updating my biz web pages and today worked on the page
that do***ents our systems here. I refer prospective Linux users to
this page to show them we use Linux in our every day business to let
them know Linux IS "ready for the desktop" for many SOHO users. If
any of you are so inclined please look at the page and give me a
critique of the CONTENT. I am not going to add graphics or change the
layout or modify the underlying HTML to add CSS. I just want to know
if I have covered enough bases regarding a Linux desktop system for
SOHO use (plus I want tons of hits so I can strut and preen ;-). Oh,
if I have left any dead links please let me know that too.

http://www.eracc.com/erainfo/oursys.htm

As one can see the server systems are not quite do***ented. I have no
desire to rush to update those as the boxes are fairly generic and
the only information I really want to show is that they are running
something OTHER than a Micro$oft $erver O$ for our SOHO biz.

Also, if any of you have similar setups do***ented I would be happy
to get a peek at how you went about do***enting your Linux/Unix
system(s). So, toss me your URL.

TIA
Gene (e-mail: gene \a\t eracc \d\o\t com)
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aragorn

On Thursday 11 August 2005 02:22, ERACC stood up and spoke the following
words to the masses...:

<snip>


Looks good from where I'm sitting, Gene. ;-) I do however have one
recommendation. Being part of a team that run an IRC network of
ourselves, I would also like to strongly recommend *KVIrc* as an IRC
client.

Mandriva used to offer it as part of the distro for a long time - when
they were still Mandrake, of course - but ceased doing so when the
transition from /KVIrc/ 2.1 to 3.0 turned out to last longer than
expected and 2.1 was no longer compatible with the default Qt version
of contemporary distributions. For Mandriva/Mandrake, this was around
version 9.0.

While /X-Chat/ is the most popular one to date among IRC clients for
UNIX-style operating systems - mainly because it was the only truly
usable one in a long time - /KVIrc/ is by far much more advanced.

It uses its own language called /kvi++,/ and it's both easier to script
and more powerful than /X-Chat./ There's support for SSL, IPv6,
multiple IRC contexts (multiserver), avatars, individual charactersets
per window (including UTF-8) etc., and there's definitely more eyecandy
and userfriendliness. Almost literally everything is customizable
through a userfriendly built-in IDE.

/KVIrc/ can be built with support for KDE or as a statically linked
application in the absence of KDE. It does require Qt, although that
can of course be statically linked as well if you decide to compile it
yourself.

You can check it out at

http://www.kvirc.net ...

:-)

--
With kind regards,

*Aragorn*
(Registered Gnu/Linux user #223157)

eracc

[...]

Thank you Aragorn I appreciate your input. I will give KVIrc a look.

Gene (e-mail: gene \a\t eracc \d\o\t com)
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