I have a copy of Knoppix (don't think it's the latest) that I am poking at to get a feel for Linux. I will have to try and find where to change the windows manager.
Fritz Brown ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Andy Streich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Overwhelmed newbie Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 20:51:20 -0400 > > On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 05:16:32PM -0700, Andy Streich wrote: > > On Friday 16 September 2005 12:55 pm, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > > > > Most importantly, this is _debian_-user. If you want to advocate > > > > other distributions willy-nilly, it's not the place. > > > > That kind of isolationism is something I think you will find > > very little > support for in the free software community. I think > > most people will > agree that we want to direct people to what is > > best for them. > > > > I am also an overwhelmed newbie, one who could not have been > > using Debian for the last 9 months without the kind (and > > sometimes terse and abrupt) help from people on this list. It > > takes a remarkable amount of dedication and time to become > > comfortable configuring a desktop Debian system on a machine with > > modest resources where you can't run KDE or GNOME without a > > significant performance problem. The choice of window managers > > for a desktop systems is, to really go out on a limb, fairly > > important. The best advice I've gotten is that I should just > > start installing and trying out all the others. That's not too > > appealing but I accept the reality. > > > > I keep staring at my Ubuntu disks and wondering if I should > > switch horses. Yet I can't begin to estimate the costs involved > > -- in terms of my time and in the quality and maintainability of > > the resulting system. Would a few months of using Ubuntu cause > > me to come running back to Debian? I have no idea. > > > > Any pointers to useful reading material would be appreciated. > > > If you are interested in trying out a multitude of window managers, I > would get a Knoppix DVD (or CD if the DVD will not work for you). That > way you can try out the 5 or six different window managers that are > part of Knoppix without going through the overhead of installing and > uninstalling each individually. If you are accustomed to Windows and > want something similar, then IceWM is probably adequate. If you want > something with maximum flexibility then something like WindowMaker (my > personal favorite) or Fluxbox or Enlightenment would probably work for > you. > > -Roberto > > -- > Roberto C. Sanchez > http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto << 2.dat >> -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm
