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


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