Dear Fedora Advocates, My brother in law will be returning from Iraq in another couple of months and one of the things I am doing for him is to build him a computer. He is not technically adept and his computer activity is pretty much limited to looking at his email on yahoo and a little web surfing. Sometimes he prints an email or two. I am vacillating on building an FC3 machine or a W2k machine. The advantages of the FC3 machine include no need for antivirus software. Less problems with spyware. No crashes. and I can set up hosts.allow to allow me to maintain the machine remotely. The disadvantage for this application seems to be getting the plugins for the browser in place. Streaming video, PPS files, Java applets, sound files, midi files, etc. HP provides a pretty good set of drivers for Linux so printing should work well. The question is: Is there a small number of places I can go to load the bulk of the plugins a general user might want? The alternative is to wait till he encounters something he cannot see and then go find and install the plugins one at at time. Thanks for any advice. Robert E. Styma Principal Engineer (DMTS) Lucent Technologies, Phoenix Email: stymar@xxxxxxxxxx Phone: 623-582-7323 FAX: 623-581-4390 Company: http://www.lucent.com Personal: http://www.swlink.net/~styma
