On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, you wrote:
>
> Generally I am in Linux a couple of times a day. One of the things I was
> taught in Winblows is... if I have lockups and errors to reboot because in
> theory it resets the registry. Yes, I know Linux doesn't have a registry,
> but what I don't know is.. if Linux needs to be rebooted because of errors?
>
It depends on what's erroring. :-)
You MIGHT try booting to console mode and learn the "guts"
of Linux first. Many of the graphical programs you're using
are just "graphical front-ends" to console based programs.
If you learn how to make the console programs work, you
should be able to get the GUI programs to work. :-)
For example, you can use ppp-on to go on-line and retrieve
updated packages. Sure there's more to configure and it's
not all in one nice neat package like KPPP, but it'll get
you on-line. :-) OTOH, we seem to have resolved THAT
problem for now... ;-)
John
