On Wed, 06 Feb 2002, Steven C. Darnold wrote: > Day Brown wrote: > You have chosen to install a GUI-based Linux. Naturally it > tends to remain "glued" to the GUI. If you wish to avoid > the "trendy color scheme", install a CLI-based Linux. I > recommend Slackware, but Debian is pretty good too. At the moment, I'm running a scsi on a Tekram 395UW. I tried both slack and debian, and the drivers from tekram would not work. I'm running Suse right now cause it is the only distro I found that would work with it.
Frankly I am rather impressed with Suse. It is the first distro that I could get kmail to work on. damifino what I was doing wrong before. It is the only distro I tried (RH 5.2& &7.2, Debian 2.2, Corel, Caldera 2.4, Slack 7.1, Mandrake 7.0 and Storm 2k) that would run everything right, and it did so right out of the box with a minimum of fuss. None of the others ran the scsi, some couldnt get the video right, and many didnt do the printer. I am beginning to get some idea of what's involved in installing Linux, but my batting average installing apps sux. I downloaded Opera, but have no idea what the Qt thing is about. The one drive I got it to run on crashes as soon as I click to download mail. I even have a CD ROM that tells me it cannot 'sh setup.sh' . and gets no reponse when I try it in terminal CLI. Given similar experiences with apps that were not installed by the distro with the kernel, I can see getting BASICLINUX booted from the dos prompt, but I dont see how I could get a browser loaded and running off it. Sometimes it is an RPM, sometimes a .kpg, .deb, or maybe .tar or gz... a confusing array of different formats. I dunno why the distros dont come with a single tool that will recognize every archive format and figure out how to install from it. In dos, just about everything out there is .zip, and the one new thing I tried in years, RAR, not only knows how to do the pkzip format, it can handle the zoo and a couple other oddballs, and do it all with a scrollbar menu system. upshot, is that in dos, you only need one tool, RAR, to extract any archive you can download off the net to install any dos app. And if there is such a superior Linux tool, then why dont the distros include it? To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
