lgb wrote:
> In article <pIydnak8ktGyBgffRVn-qg@comcast.com>, "marcusm
> <\"marcusm7\"@" <"comcast.netWork> says...
>
>
> Now I just have to get X and dialup working and I'll be set to go.
>
In case you haven't heard; X has on many distributions has gone from
XFree86 to Xorg and so the commands are a little different: # xorgconfig
Will do the trick to setup a starting xorg.conf file. The location is
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.
>
> BTW, I tried KDE and it was extremely slow in my old equipment (233mhz).
> I thought I'd try Gnome just to see how slow it was. You don't seem to
> like it. Any reasons?
>
From what I read a lot of people are very fond of Gnome and I'm sure
for good reasons. Myself, I tried it a few times and never got the hang
of it. I'm mush better at using kde. I don't install it because even
not using it, it has a mind of its own. It has interactions with the
kde install that I don't care for and then its help database was also
being updated regularly. From what I hear its also going in to pastures
in Slackware 11. Xfce is the light wight champ on the block, so you may
want to give it a go.
>
> P.S. I'm not a Linux novice, I tried it first when Slackware was at
> 0.97 (or 0.79, who remembers). I used it for several years to develop
> and test programs for a customer running SCO Unix. But I stopped using
> it about 10 years ago and am amazed at how much I've forgotten. Of
> course, at my age, I'm amazed at how much I've forgotten about
> everything :-).
>
> Thanks for the advice.
>

So I'm definitely trying to learn what you may have forgotten
Glad to hear you got it all ironed out.


Just in case:

/usr/doc/Linux-HOWTOs/Security-Quickstart-HOWTO
http://members.cox.net/laitcg/new/intro.html
http://www.giac.org/certified_profes.../gcux/0177.php