Re: stupid, but I have to ask it - how to start it up once installed
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 07:03:48PM +0000, John Gay wrote:
> If you don't want your system to boot directly into X, I'm not sure what
> command you can run to get kdm, but once that is up, you can then select
> kde2 when you login and off you go.
Thanks for the details on kdm. Indeed what I'm trying to do is set it so
that startx or whatever works from a shell - I don't as a rule want to boot
into a GUI. Ah well. Someone must know.
> As for why Debian, apt-get install xxx is enough reason for me. I've never
> had any luck using .rpm's. And the new task packages make it that much
> easier. Unfortunately, the configuration can be more difficult to get your
> head around for non-UNIX types, but once you get used to it, it is much
> more powerful and stable than anything I've ever tried.
Well, I'm a Unix type trying to get the hang of Debian. Always humbling to
become a beginner again. I'm more used to Red Hat, Slackware and Mandrake,
with some Solaris experience. I agree the apt-get stuff is a real advance.
What's surprising me is how sparse the Debian documentation is. Maybe once a
bit further in it will make such obvious sense that less documentation will
be needed?
Whit
whit@transpect.com
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