"Ben A L Jemmett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


> > I think the distros are
> > aware of that perception. and profit by it. :)
> You're telling me.

As long as their "profit" doen't cost me a nickle, I'm game! :)

> I just installed SuSE something.or.other in a VM on my
> Win2k box (hardly a SurvPC :) ), and it boot straight into one of those
> loathsome KDE or GNOME or something.  KDE I think.

Isn't it fun when you hit 320-240 resolution under VMware? Makes the
installation -- ah -- interesting at times. Oh well, since I don't have the
room, nor the heat tolerance to keep a half dozen PCs running in my den, at
least VMware lets me keep a slew of virtual beasties running.

One feature that I love is the ability to switch to non-persistent disk mode
before doing anything radical. Maybe some OS in the future will offer a
similar mode - let me turn on non-persistent when upgrading or making
significant system changes, then roll back if all else fails.

> Bah.  Tomorrow I'm going to
> switch the default WM to fvwm and remove xdm from my startup scripts...
Give
> me a shell prompt!

Other than setting a different color shell prompt for each system to avoid
confusion, I generally do very little out of a shell prompt in Linux. I'm
not doing too much in the way of apps under Linux, as I've got to use
Windows for work anyhow.

- Bob

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