On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hallo to all : - > I tried all the ones Steve calls "newbie-friendly", leaving Debian to > last because of its difficult image. I'd have settled with some of the > others if there'd been less of the graphics widgedoze > let-me-take-you-over about them.
You can certainly install Red Hat without any X at all... never mind having GUI stuff take over. I don't even have Gnome or KDE installed. Basically, you can set up a system that is GUI or un-GUI as you like. > So I was stuck with having to get into > Debian and even from a DOS-only background its not been a bit easy, > especially because I didn't find anything like a users' list group, > maybe didn't look correctly. I discovered this place through uptime.netcraft.com and discovered he's located in my netblock neighborhood. His uptime numbers aren't as good as mine though, so I wonder how much about Linux he really knows. ;-) (just kidding -- check out http://www.debianhelp.org/) > I do miss any equivalent > of all the pre-W95 paper manuals that Microsoft used so generously to > point towards the better class of skip for our attention, "Joe" being > too busy to take them home and use them. You can always print out the rute manual. It's every bit the quality of M$ manuals of yore. http://rute.sourceforge.net/ - Steve
