A VERY HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR TO ALL. As I had promised, I took up installation of RH7.2 on my P-I(166/32). My PC was overwhelmed, and could only crawl. So, back I came to my PCQL7.1. I wonder if Grub had anything to do with the speed - after all, the whole installation was so graphics oriented, I was unable to get to text mode - maybe Lilo would be faster??? - forgot to try that. Anyway, one big improvement I could see in Gnome over 7.1 - In 7.1, when logged in as a user, to do anything requiring su permission requires to either logout and login as root, or open a virtual console and log in as root - both being equally frustrating. 7.2 has thoughtfully provided a dialog box asking for the root password at the appropriate places. In 7.1 once you login as a user and then su'd as root, you cannot run linuxconf under Gnome, you must login directly as root.
All this set me thinking - I am only an enduser, my relation with a computer is related to using the softwares for writing letters, making spreadsheets and graphs, designing PCBs, using CAD packages and keeping track of my accounts etc. Maybe, I can collect my experiences with the various types of OS's I have used and post them here. Who knows, it may help some budding programmer design better and more user-freindly systems. I'll be back ...... K.Ghosh. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
