Rimu Atkinson

For ages I put up with random hangs and where some or all of my panels would stop responding, and completely rebooting was the only solution (killall gnome-panels wouldn't unfreeze things either; all the hung panels disappear, but then nothing comes back in their place)...

I knew it had something to do with connecting to other computers by using gnome's "Connect to Server" feature, and since the problem only happened intermittently and listless googling didn't turn up anything I just lived with it.

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Almost a year ago, I switched to Linux as my main development platform. It was difficult, but not as bad as I expected. Worth the effort, definitely.

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There is no native version of the Safari web browser for linux, but you can run the windows version of it by using Wine. In short: set wine up to 'emulate' windows xp, copy over some fonts (I copied over all my TrueType font by doing a cp /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/*.ttf ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts/ as the instructions I found below only included Arial and Times), run the installer and away she goes. More detailed instructions