VanLUG Email Archive
A Z (arek_z@yahoo.com)
Sun, 24 Jan 1999 02:01:12 -0800 (PST)
I can start the
> GUI by entering 'startx'. When I do that I get a blue desktop in very
> low resolution with one window open (a text only box called 'nxterm'
> that displays a command prompt) and a mouse pointer (that is frozen).
Did you run Xconfigutor? That would be my first suggestion. And as for
your mouse, that happened to me too. Never happened to me before,
until this last install I did. Just try mouseconfig and pick the
closest mouse you got...worked for me anyways. Then download a good
Window Manager...Window Maker or the like.
> Where do I go from here? Perhaps coming from a windows environment I
was
> expecting a lot more functionality right out of the box. Like where
are
> all the software packages that were installed
They are there...depends on what you installed though. type vi or
emacs startx telnet ftp if you want the apps like the ones you are
using to in Winblows, try downloading WP8 or Star Office.
I dial into my ISP
> and start Netscape Communicator.
Configing internet connections can be a little hard, I heard 5.2 is
really easy to do though, I have 5.1 and @home took me a while to
understand...all those /etc/hosts & other files to config. Netscape
should to installed by default...but again depends on what packages
your installed.
I know that I will have to boot into
> Win95 for gaming as long as the mainstream games are written for that
> platform. However, I had hoped to eventually do more and more in
Linux.
There are a few games out for Linux, and a company is starting to port
games to Linux...can't remember their names. I guess you could always
use WINE and play games. Haven't played with WINE and heard it is kind
of unstable, but it's worth a try. Plus, I am not much of a gamer.
> I am very interested in learning this and quite attracted to the
> open software concept but am wondering what my expectations of Linux
> should be. Everything I am reading about Linux on web pages and
various
> publications speaks highly of it, but it seems pretty impenetrable at
> this point. So what I am asking, is this. Is Linux a viable
alternative
> for me to use without having to invest huge amounts of time upfront to
> accomplish tasks that work fairly well already in the platform I am
> familiar with? I am really quite keen on trying Linux but am rather
> disappointed with this first exposure.
>
Hmmm...well let's just say 10 million people can't be wrong...and most
being computer literate (more then the M$-sense). Yeah, it's a much
differnet outlook then M$, but trust me once you get used to it, you
don't know how you could of lived with out it :)
-arek
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