On Wednesday, February 25, 2004 3:08 AM, Mike wrote:

> If linux could only use USB for communications (wireless
> USB nic) I would lose WinXP for good. 

The Linux USB site maintains a list of the support statuses (statii?) of
various pieces of USB hardware, including USB wireless NICs.  Check this
out:  http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdevcat.php?id=16

> Although unfortunately for me I do still need SQL+ which
> I believe is only available for win clients. I may be
> wrong and if so correct me!! 

You should be able to install the Oracle client software (which I think
includes SQL*Plus) on Linux.  And there is at least one SQL Worksheet-like
GUI:  http://devel-home.kde.org/~ksqlplus/. 

> I may try Fedora just to see if they did something right....

I've been using Fedora since FC1 was released last Fall.  So far, it has
worked really well for me.  I use it as my personal workstation/server at
home.  I use it to surf the web, read and send email, serve up some personal
webpages (HTML, PHP, Perl/CGI), serve up IMAP mail to the other machines on
my LAN, act as a web proxy to the other machines on my LAN, burn and rip
CDs, play MP3s, FLACs and SHNs and download photos from my digital camera.
I've been frustrated trying to print to my Canon S900 color printer, but
that problem is not unique to Fedora.  And getting some plugins (e.g.
RealPlayer) to work in Mozilla has proven to be more trouble than it should.
Other than those minor inconveniences, everything else has worked very well
for me.  

I suppose you should take this with a grain of salt.  I've been using Red
Hat since RH 4.2, and generally like what they do.  If you're predisposed to
disliking Red Hat, you may hate Fedora, too.

HTH.  YMMV.

~Jeff
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