Hello everyone, I've posted a few times before, asking questions about XFree86. I finally got it to work! Yeah...
I don't know where else to put this, so here it goes on the list. If there is somewhere better, let me know! :-) So far, I like woody. When I'm in console mode, everything is very very fast. At least, it seems faster...one thing that I know is faster and has nothing to do with the kernel is download speed. I have a DSL connection and when I had potato going the speed was along the lines of 25-30 KB/sec...Now I'm doing 65-80! Being that it's unstable/testing, I am having problems (I'm just reporting, not complaining :-), mainly with using apt-get. I did a minimal install starting with potato and then upgraded to woody by changing my sources.list references from potato to woody. Upgraded no problem. I have three packages that stubbornly refuse to install, but I either don't know what they do (balsa, for one), or they haven't caused a serious loss of functionality; so I'm okay with that. Sometimes dpkg segfaults, especially if I'm installing more than a few packages, so I end up having to re-run dpkg separately from apt-get. I had fun attempting to get Netscape installed. First, I wasn't quite sure what packages to d/l from non-free -- I tried all the ones that said netscape-4.77(something like that), but that didn't work. I tried the communicator ones and those worked better, but then I had to d/l something that didn't look netscape-ish in order for it all to work. I had originally tried using apt-get install netscape (or communicator) and it didn't work, even though I am set up to use non-free software. Anyway, I finally figured it all out, and am happily running Netscape Communicator -- except for when I'm root (security reasons, it said). Another thing that broke was tasksel. I still get the screen for it, but it can't d/l anything for woody (I guess?). I want to install gnome, but that's a nightmare and a half trying to figure out all of the stuff that is required, which explains tasksel. Ah well...for the moment I'm running Enlightenment, and it is slow!! It's quite a contrast to running the shell. I go to play Mah-jong (great way to waste away a Sunday!) and two minutes later it pops up, ready to play. I know it's two minutes because that's how long the game was going before I could see it on the screen. One last thing. I tried to compile pine, but it failed. I'll send output if anyone wants it. I'm sure having fun with this. Russell ____________________________________________________ _its_ (no apostrophe) means "the thing that it owns" _it's_ (with apostrophe) means "it is"
