On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 12:10:47AM -0700, Dwight Johnson (dwj@aaronsrod.com) wrote: > On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Jatin Golani wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > i'm using Debian 2.2.....havent been able to get a GUI > > that I like...also not sure about the fonts,etc....so > > i need to test it with a GUI that I'm familiar > > with....the Win 95 GUI.....I have once seen a linux > > box which had a GUI exactly like Win 95.......i mean > > like exactly like it...... > > You were probably looking at fvwm95. Red Hat used it for a year or so. But > I think you are going to be disappointed in your search for a GUI that is > _exactly_ like Win95, or even close. Dittos. > The most robust GUI on Linux today is KDE. And the most satisfying > deployment of KDE is what you will find on either Mandrake or SuSE Linux. > So, if a sophisticated GUI is your priority as well as the quickest start > on Linux, forget about Debian for the present and go with one of these > distros. Disagree. KDE is now part of Woody, so if you don't mind a slightly unstable KDE, you've got it with Debian. Just been playing with it for the past half hour or so -- it's actually not bad for a MS Windows knockoff <g>. To give credit, it's grown beyond that, considerably. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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