[olug] Need a program for my wife

Eric Lusk wyrmzr72 at yahoo.com
Fri Jul 21 02:18:38 UTC 2006


Forecastfox works quite well.  Weather alerts, current
temp, etc.  And not as much of a memory hog as so many
other programs...

--- Don Kauffman <dekauff at cox.net> wrote:

> I know it worked with Suse 9.3 and Gnome. It's also
> available with
> Ubuntu. Didn't try to get it working with KDE since
> I'm not a KDE
> person.
> 
> Firefox has a forecast fox extension or plugin. I
> don't know the status
> of that since FF 1.5. I used it on 1.2. Craig Wolf
> might be able to tell
> us more about that since he's the one that clued me
> into it in the first
> place. 
> 
> Son 
> 
> On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 20:43 -0500, Mike Peterson
> Charles wrote:
> > There is a weather report applet for Gnome and one
> of the latest Linux
> > magazines in the last few months installed it on
> KDE.
> > It comes standard on Simply Mepis 6 RC3 on KDE and
> Red Hat/CentOS/Fedora on
> > Gnome.
> > What Desktop are you running with SUSE (KDE or
> GNOME)? 
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: olug-bounces at olug.org
> [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of Bill
> > Brush
> > Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 8:34 PM
> > To: olug at olug.org
> > Subject: [olug] Need a program for my wife
> > 
> > I've finally gotten my wife to switch over to
> Linux (whoody who!) by
> > giving her a Suse 10.1 desktop complete with XGL
> and compiz.  But now
> > she wants Weatherbug, or something like it.  So is
> there anything out
> > there for Linux that will give you cute little
> weather updates?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Bill
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