At 09:50 PM 5/7/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Sheesh... took me a few days to finally install RedHat, configure
>MetroLinks X system... still can't seem to get it to register my Diamond
>Stealth 2500 video card... and ... I hate to say this...
>
>...but I miss the Win95 interface. Mostly because in Win95, I knew what I
>was doing, and didn't have to gobb around with all the underpinnings...
>guess I need to buy 4 or 5 books on it. Catch up. The X Windows interface
>seems to take some getting used to...
1) Uninstall MetroX.
2) Install the Free X86 Xwindows server. They have more support
for video cards.
>Can't even seem to figure out a simple "How do I get my Dial-Up connection
>to work so I can read the on-line help documentation?" ... but what I
>thought was really strange was that there seems to be a Win95 Explorer
>"emulator" http://jungfrau.ptf.hro.nl/explorer/images/desktop.gif someone
>has made...
That is actually a for sale product. There is a free windows
manager that comes with the Xfree86 package that looks like Win95.
>
>Nah, I'll just keep on trying to teach myself the system... Saying that it
>is quite different than Win95 and Mac's would be quite an understatement.
>All I wanted to do was program with Perl and try to configure Apache... ;}
Ummm.. If thats all you wanted, you could have used Perl and
Apache for Win95 *g*
Matt Soffen
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