Why?

I am new to Debian - within the last two weeks - and two things puzzle me. Why do you seem to prefer gnome over kde? I have examined both and kde seems to me to be easier to use. There must be something I am missing. Is it worth hunting for a way to change the default? Where did you get that

Why do I bother?

I am wondering if I should be sending this to Debian or to a psychiatric facility. I have just spent a little over two weeks unable to connect to the web. My windows connection went down and I could not re-install it. I figured that shouldn't be a problem, I had Debian 3.0 on the other half o

Getting xfree86 running

I have been trying different things to get XFree86 running. The last message I got was: xfOpenConsole: command not found When I try vidtune, I get: Error: Can't open display Again: I have Debian 3.0 running on half of a 40 Gig drive on a Toshiba Satellite A30. Boot control is lilo and

X config

No matter what I do with the XF86Config-4 in /etc/X11, I get the same fatal error message at the end: xf86OpenConsole: Cannot find a free VT I could not find anything like xf86OpenConsole. When I had Debian before, X attached itself to tty7 automatically. Any ideas? I can