is linux best for internet ? i do'nt think so please help me , iam confused.?

Question

my operating system is red hat linux , i get a problem with internet my web page doesn't show some features but while run it on xp it shows all features ...... is there any solutions for it?

Answer 1

Make sure you have the latest versions of

Flash

Java



Also if you want embeded video to play make sure you have

mplayer

mplayerplug-in that makes firefox use mplayer to pay video

and makes sure you have the video codecs installed so mplayer can play each type of video. You can find these on the mplayer website also your distro probably has all this but may not be installed by default do to legal grey area.



If you want to see what is working in firefox type this in the brouser



about:plugins

that will tell you what you have working



Also activex does not work in linux. So any website that is using activex will not show that part. And some sites have ie specific coding. They are probably using activex and will not work no matter what you do.



So just check about:plugins and make sure you have flash java and mplayerplug-in

Answer 2

To answer your question literally, no. The Internet spread first mainly on machines running UNIX. The syntax of FTP clients is based on UNIX. It had to deal with worms and malware first and while arguably Linux is UNIX nobody has dealt with the infrastructure issues in more depth than UNIX developers.



A lot of sites on the World Wide Web use Microsoft products. Microsoft, as a matter of policy, does not support Linux. It may well be that your web page uses Microsoft products. If it doesn't then probably it does use Java and/or Flash. Assuming you have a recent version of Red Hat/Fedora, you should be able to get them with a "yum install" flashplayer or java. If not you'll just have to go to the relevant pages for downloads (and make sure you get rpms.

Answer 3

I have noticed that the Konqueror Browser (Part of KDE) is sometimes not as full featured as Mozilla, or Opera.

There are a few web pages that use Microsoft specific extensions such as activeX and vbscript, or data islands. These are features that specifically require Internet Explorer on a Windows OS with all the underlying security holes.

Try using Firefox, or IceApe for the the browser, of install Opera for Linux.

Answer 4

This could be one of a few problems..



1) your using some flaky web-browser



Try using Firefox or Flock



2) Flash and Java are not installed



look around for some .rpm's for flash and java



or



open a page that needs the plugins in firefox (it will prompt you to install plugins)



or



search the repos for flash & java



Hope i can help (i use kubuntu)