Re: Opening and/or setting up XFree86 in Debian sarge

2005-10-15 Thread Adam Porter
To be frank, I recommend you install a more desktop user-oriented distro like Ubuntu, MEPIS, or Xandros. All of those are based on Debian. Any of those will get you started with just about everything you need already set up, yet still have the ability to manually install and configure other

Opening and/or setting up XFree86 in Debian sarge

2005-10-11 Thread george5
For the umpteenth time I'm attempting to set up a Linux-based PC in order to do home office stuff, like write professional- looking reports, image editing and publishing, and webpage development. No games, nothing requiring speed of any kind. I downloaded several ISO files, succeeded in

Re: Opening and/or setting up XFree86 in Debian sarge

2005-10-11 Thread Jason Martens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the umpteenth time I'm attempting to set up a Linux-based PC in order to do home office stuff, like write professional- looking reports, image editing and publishing, and webpage development. No games, nothing requiring speed of any kind. I downloaded several ISO

Re: Opening and/or setting up XFree86 in Debian sarge

2005-10-11 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the umpteenth time I'm attempting to set up a Linux-based PC snip That got me to the command prompt. No sign of a GUI anywhere ... Making progress. Excellent. Then I got the system to recognize the network (Linksys router, DSL modem, WXP laptop also on