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Making a little progress here. Many thanks to John Pearson for the most
recent increment.
Next:
1. Not sure whether my installation completed. I was looking at someone's
comments about editing a file in /usr/src/linux, so I tried to go there. But
I don?t seem to have any such directory. Here?s what I get at the command
prompt:
debian:/usr/src# dir
debian:/usr/src#
In other words, there seems to be nothing in there. Is this normal? Also,
when I type ?man? at the prompt, I get ?command not found.? In general terms,
is there a diagnostic that verifies I got the whole enchilada installed?
2. I am making spiritual preparations for the long trek through dselect, in
the hope that if I strictly control what files get installed, I can avoid
Microsoft-style bloat. Am I correct in thinking that dselect is structured in
such a way as to support this fond hope? Will I bloat if I instead use a
profile? Is there a way to invoke the profiler outside of the installation
sequence? (It didn?t arise during installation, for some reason.)
3. Is there a good source of reviews on Linux software: (a) Am I correct in
surmising that I must choose from among more than several Linux windowing/GUI
schemes? (b) Point-by-point objective comparisons of versions of Emacs? (c)
High-quality discussions of various utilities, office suites, etc.?
4. Am I roughly correct in thinking that, after the installation is done, the
next thing is to install the windowing/GUI software, and then after that it?s
a free-for-all in which I will just install as many pieces of application
software as I can stomach? Along those lines, can I rest my faith in Emacs as
my do-all Swiss Army knife, or should I be expecting to install eight trillion
utilities and gizmos?
Thanks all ...
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