On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> > http://wizard.dyndns.org/pine_head.png
> > http://wizard.dyndns.org/pine_arachne.png
>
> Nice screenshots! The first one really does resemble the way
> I might view HTML in Lynx386 for DOS. Thanks for your reply.
And here's one of what quoted material looks like:
(with default colors, IIRC)
http://wizard.dyndns.org/pine_foot.png
> BTW, What version of Linux are you using? Could you recommend
> your version to a wannabe and a soon-to-become newbie like me?
I'm currently using Red Hat 6.2 without a Desktop
Environment such as Gnome or KDE. I find a Window
Manager (fvwm2 / lesstif style) to be more than sufficient,
and it's what I'm used to... similar in many ways to the
old Commodore 64 Geoworks. ;-)
This look and feel was a lot easier to install with
the 4.x and 5.x versions, but to do so in 6.x or 7.x
requires a bit of extra effort. The default Gnome
Desktop Environment uses the Enlightenment window
manager, which combination is fairly bloated... seems
to be what "most" people want these days.
At any rate, yes, Red Hat is fairly newbie-friendly,
especially when it comes to installing the Gnome/
Enlightenment or KDE desktops. Stick to the later
versions of a given release though:
Red Hat x.0 - Wow! Look at the new features! Some
tools aren't 100% compatible. A few bugs.
Red Hat x.1 - Fixed a security hole that popped up,
fixed almost all bugs.
Red Hat x.2 - Some minor package upgrades, swatted
the last of the bugs. Stable.
Mandrake is probably the only distribution that's
more newbie-friendly, but on the downside, it's also
more bloated.
- Steve
