On Wednesday 19 December 2001 02:01 pm, you wrote:
> My guess is that he'll run into trouble spots with streaming media, and any
> java applications in a browser.

> RealPlayer for Linux stinks. 
<snip>

My real play works fine in Mandrake 8.1

> Configuring java with Konqeror is no joy and even when it is finished I
> find that the blank gray boxes that should be applets or .jsps are a common
> problem with Sun's java. Netscape 4.x does fine, but Netscape 6.2 can't run
> it's own java installer and Konqeror dead ends with the aforementioned
> problem.

I use both Konqueror and Netscape 6.2 with java and flash working fine.  I 
even upgraded to KDE 2.2.2 and KOffice 1.1.1 with no problems.  Maybe I'm 
lucky?