Help by Version for Linux (and other X-Windows) Users

PC-BSD Users

I don't recommend PC-BSD 8.1 and will not support it, because almost everything doesn't work. It seems they are trying to copy the Microsoft approach of a having everything popping up and bugging you, changing all the established conventions, hiding all the settings, requires more than 1 GB of RAM just to load a basic desktop, it is almost impossible to disable all the fancy effects, and it also takes forever to load and keeps crashing. After I tried to change the settings, the system locked up on me and would not reboot. I knew something was wrong when it needed 10 GB just to install the base system (most Linuxes only take 2-3 GB for a basic install). Some people may say that all those problem come from KDE 4, but openSUSE works fine with KDE 4, so that is not an excuse. I have a recent iMac and 4 GB of RAM, an Intel Core 2 Duo, over 100 GB of free space and I gave the virtual machine 1 GB.

Open Source Users

For recent versions of Linux (Intel, 64 bit Intel, PowerPC; open source and commercial) FreeBSD, and OpenSolaris (x86 and Sparc), you should have Firefox 2.0, Swiftfox 2.0, Ice Weasel 2.0, Gnu IceCat 2.0, Swiftweasel 2.0, Google Chrome 5.0 (stable channel version), SeaMonkey 1.1, IceApe 1.1, GNUzilla 1.1, Flock 1.0, Konqueror 4.3, Epiphany 2.16, Midori .1.9, or Kazehakase .5.8 which work for my web pages.

All types of my PDFs work with Evince (or Document Viewer) under Gnome or XFCE and Okular under KDE 4.2, one of which should come with your desktop environment. xpdf 3 also works with all types of my PDFs for others without a desktop environment on an open source platform.

Testing

I have tested my website Ubuntu Linux 11.04 under Gnome with Firefox and Evince (all on standard Intel 32 bit) and openSUSE 11.4 under KDE with Firefox and Okular.

Other Formats

There are viewers for other file formats that can be installed under Ubuntu by clicking on Ubuntu Software Center and under PC-BSD by double clicking on Software Manager from the link on the desktop.