andy1976uk wrote:
ahayes wrote:
andy1976uk wrote:
ahayes wrote:
andy1976uk wrote:
Got it working in the end, just trying to decide if I should use Konqueror or Firefox....
I use Xubuntu (but also have KDE) and Firefox, but I also have Konqueror and Opera on my machine. Firefox adheres very rigidly to international Web design standards, while Internet Explorer does *not.* Since most websites are unfortunately designed for IE users as though nobody else existed, you'll find some that will not work properly (actually improperly) with Firefox. But sometimes they will work with Konqueror or Opera. I've had to go to Konqueror to fill out some forms, for example.
As for the MD5 checksum, it's easy. You download the long string of hexadecimal numbers that is shown near the link for downloading the program (sometimes the MD5 numbers are on a separate link, but it should be obvious), or just copy them and keep them handy. Then when you're done downloading the OS or software you want to use, you go:
sudo md5sum [name of downloaded .bin or whatever file you're checking goes here] <RETURN>
and after a varying period of time (sometimes it takes over a minute) the md5sum program will show you the checksum of the downloaded program or OS. Then you just compare it with the posted checksum and if it matches, all should be well. If it doesn't, something's wrong. It could be data corruption while downloading, so the first thing to try is downloading again. If it still doesn't match, then something else is probably at fault--it could be some error on the part of the distributors, or it could be something sinister. Since I've never had this happen, I've never had to take another step, but my first step would be to contact the distributor about it. And I would use Google to see if others had had a similar problem.
18 Jan 2007, 11:20 pm
