On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Cristian Burneci wrote:
> Steve wrote:
> >Which Netscape? If you're talking a 4.x version, you will do a
> >lot of thumb-twiddling.
> It is indeed Metscape 4.61 (the one that comes with RedHat 6.1). I was
> already thinking of trying NS 3.x when I read your message. Now that I'm
> sure it is not so memory hungry (thanks for the tip), I'm going to start
> the quest of finding and downloading it.
Netscape 3.x does have some limitations on some sites, but then
as Arachne users, we're used to that. ;-)
> WinLinux is in
> fact a not-so-stripped Slackware distribution of Linux which uses the
> UMSDOS filesystem. This means you won't need to repartition your
> hard-drive in order to install it.
I installed Slackware once just to compare its installation
with several other installation procedures. I didn't actually
run it for more than a day, but I did install it on an ext2fs
partition... which is about the best way, though possibly ext3fs
or ReiserFS might be better for partitions which are written to
often.
If at all possible, you should avoid UMSDOS. About the best
that can be said for it is that it's better than nothing. I only
ever used UMSDOS with Monkey Linux, and I found lots of strange
"left-overs" hanging around on the drive... nothing that would
crash the system or anything like that, just that my hard drive
was getting filled up with useless fragments of files which I
*thought* I'd deleted. It seems to require a lot of extra
housecleaning.
> Have you ever come across it?
No, I've never run across WinLinux.
> and furthermore, they offer only KDE (of course :-( ).
KDE has a similar feel to Windoze. You can get a lot of that
Windoze look (if that's what you like) with fvwm-95, with a lot
less bloat.
> And I'm planning to do something to get rid of xdm.
xdm is good if you're planning on using an X terminal from one
machine to use X resources on another. This would only be useful
over a network, but it might be a consideration.
If you want to log in a console, simply change the 5 in this line
id:5:initdefault:
in your inittab file to a 3.
> Those who had never seen anything of Linux before they installed
> Winlinux, won't ever know there is a text console somewhere.
To get to a console from an xdm-initiated session, do
<ctrl><alt><Fn> where n is usually 1 through 6.
To get back to the X session, do <alt><F7> (assuming it's set up
for 6 consoles like most other distributions)
- Steve
