Couple quick Linux questions

[Deeko]

Alright...had Ubuntu running on and off for a week or so now. Its alright...I've got a few major issues though:

-I hate Firefox. It also comes with Mozilla, which also sucks, and Epiphany, which is ok but not spectacular. Is there any good, non tabbed browsing browser out there?
-Email....Evolution is alright, but honestly its not close to Outlook. What's a good email client that supports Exchange?
-Media....I'm using XMMS, which I like, but the vast majority of my music is ripped to WMA. The WMA plugin I've found on the internet isn't recognized. Any WORKING WMA plugins, or other options for a player?

Thanks guys.

 

[everman]

You can disable tabs if that's the only issue.
Try Kmail.
Not sure about the music.

 

[jfall]

Web Browsers: Try Galeon
Email: Kmail
Media: Not sure, I pretty much only listen to MP3s

 

[tfinch2]

Browser: Opera
E-mail: Kmail
Not sure about media like everyone else, just use whatever is built in.

 

[Nothinman]

-I hate Firefox. It also comes with Mozilla, which also sucks, and Epiphany, which is ok but not spectacular. Is there any good, non tabbed browsing browser out there?

I use Galeon, it's lighter than Mozilla. But then again I love tabs too.

-Email....Evolution is alright, but honestly its not close to Outlook. What's a good email client that supports Exchange?

Being not close to Outlook is a good thing. For a GUI MUA you're best choices are Evolution and Thunderbird, AFAIK Evolution has an Exchange plugin that requires Exchange 2000 or newer but I have no idea how good it is.

-Media....I'm using XMMS, which I like, but the vast majority of my music is ripped to WMA. The WMA plugin I've found on the internet isn't recognized. Any WORKING WMA plugins, or other options for a player?

I would avoid WMA, it's a MS wrapper and usually has DRM'd contents.

 

[Deeko]

No tabs aren't the only problem, I just don't like Firefox as a whole.

I have become rather accustomed to Outlook and have no problems with it. Evolution I'm not a huge fan of...is there a way to make it minimize to the taskbar? That's annoying. Thunderbird does not support Exchange that I can tell.

I'd avoid WMA excecpt my CD's are all ripped in it. It is not DRM'd. I just have to read it.

New problem...I was running a server for basic things on XP, just some pictures and filesharing nothing major, was using IIS. I installed Apache, but everything is coming up as forbidden. I can't really chmod the inetpub/wwwroot seeing as its NTFS and is read only. Is there another way to have apache read that directory?

 

[Nothinman]

New problem...I was running a server for basic things on XP, just some pictures and filesharing nothing major, was using IIS. I installed Apache, but everything is coming up as forbidden. I can't really chmod the inetpub/wwwroot seeing as its NTFS and is read only. Is there another way to have apache read that directory?

Seeing that it's NTFS, you'll have to mess with the umask, uid and gid options to mount to change the permissions.

 

[Red and black]

MSexchange can be set up to serve POP and IMAP, in which case you can use any kind of unix mail setup you want. At a previous job, I used fetchmail to poll the MSexchange server via IMAP, delivering to my local postfix server.