At 4:58 AM -0700 on 11/3/99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>Also my school has two versions of linux - an earlier one which is driven via
>pop up menus (click on background, and menu appears with submenus) and a later
>version which more closely simulates the Mac GUI. The second version is easier
>than windows NT, and the first reacts about like earlier versions of windows.
>In other words they "look and feel" rickety

That's not linux -- that's a second program, known a "X". The look is
caused by something called a window manager. With some editing of
configuration files, you can change the look (fairly) easily.

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