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If so, do you know of any programs that can be used for uploading to web pages?

Currently shaking off the MS blinkers, using XP Pro and Frontpage for this at the mo.

In reply to ewang:

I have been knwo to sport a mean fedora whilst on holiday, not too many folk seem to wear then down Killie high st though

would have thought a baseball hat more your thing though

In reply to martin riddell:

he likes to dress up when at home.

In reply to martin riddell:

Bastards, the pair of yi!

I was thinking my Linux uploading woes were over there, only to open the thread up and see you two have shat all over it!

In reply to ewang:

thats because we like to do that on your threads.
unlike you who just shit all over.

In reply to mik:


Hoi! Bacon boy, if you're going to live in our country speak and type properly instead of sounding like some Ali G batty boy.

In reply to ewang: I don't know of any specific programs maybe fedora has something already in it like an ftp program.

http://fedora.redhat.com/ this is their website it may help.



Ubuntu Linux is also good. They just brought out a server version

In reply to ewang:

The basic tool you want is FTP - there's millions (well, maybe just thousands) of FTP client programs around, and a fair number of them will be available as RPMs (packages for RedHat).

You'll probably also find some web design programs with FTP built in, again there's loads, so some of them should be available as RPM. These make the job easier by just giving you a button/command to synch the server and your current work.

For a more fancy approach there's WebDAV, which is kind of FTP, but designed specifically for web development stuff. There's not as many programs that support this, but there's bound to be a few available as RPM.


Frontpage? Noooo! It's the bane of web development, please chose anything else. Or if you are going to use it at least pass your HTML through a validator program and test it in some browsers other than IE5.

In reply to ewang:

ok ok, you of any spell checker who adds poor spelling and gramatical errors?

(im assuming im not poor enough to type as a local)

In reply to ewang: To the best of my recollections, you can do the ftp stuff in konqueror.

Hope this helps

Dave

Thanks all (except mik and martin), never really mucked about with FTP but I guess it's time to learn.

I'll be back soon with a similar request for photo editing packages once i've got this up and running.

In reply to ewang:

I was running Fedora about this time last year but didn't like it so installed Slackware instead. You are bound to have some FTP app you can use to upload html files to your webspace. I use KDE with Slack and it comes with some generic FTP app.

Andy

In reply to ewang:

Oh, I forgot another option. Basic FTP is inherently insecure (passwords sent in plain text, data sent unencrypted too). There are two options for fixing this, sFTP is just FTP over SSL (similar to using https rather than http), or SCP (part of a whole set of secure network stuff based around SSH - can be made very secure).

Again you'll find quite a few SCP client programs packaged as RPMs. They'll be almost as easy to use as FTP, just a bit of security config after the install.


Ah, that'll be ImageMagick, The GIMP and a lot of time spent climbing the learning curve.

In reply to ewang:
I would help u but (A) u r a prick & (B) u used FrontPage and that reinforces point A

In reply to adam carless:


think Ewan knows enough about the GIMP package thank you

In reply to martin riddell:


Ooh, in that case I'll be asking for hints from him instead.

In reply to ewang:
ps
i found fedora crap. I use suse but it is all personal preference i guess

In reply to pigeonjim:


You goin climbing tonight, no? Must be me then. :-P

Get it up yi ya gammy fingered poof!

In reply to pigeonjim:

Got suse as well, will try both eventually.

In reply to adam carless:

That git riddell is refering to a different type of Gimp, one that wears a mask I think.

In reply to ewang:

AKA u and martin's on going homo erotic friendship. Like watership down but less fur and more cock.

In reply to pigeonjim:

You feeling left out?
If you hadn't gotten too excited the last time and burst martin's budgie we might still let you join in.

In reply to ewang:


I'm trying very hard not to think he meant that, please don't shatter my innocent illusions.

In reply to ewang:

I use Fedora 4 for Web Servers. I used to use Debian, made the switch to Fedora about 2 years ago.

I do all my development on XP Pro using various packages, Frontpage isn't one of them.

I wouldnt use Fedora as a desktop linux distro. In fact, I wouldnt use linux for desktop usage in general, I dont see the point. No doubt that will spark arguments from the anti-MS camp

I use ProFTPD as the FTP server on the Fedora machines, and I use either Absolute FTP or Cute FTP as the FTP client on the XP machines.

In reply to ewang:

gftp

Try it from the command-line if you cannot find it on the menus.

In reply to ewang: gftp probably what you after, might not be installed by default though.

In reply to lewis:

Aye now that I am home I can confirm that it is gftp that I am using.

Andy