Thank you - was [Re: Choosing among "Desktop Enviroments" and/or "Windows Managers"]

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>]

Richard Owlett wrote:
> /Background
> [snip]
>
> /Questions
> 1. Given that I prefer LILO over GRUB and xfce over
> Gnome/lxde/kde, what GUIs should I investigate further.
> 2. Given that internet is effectively non-existent and
> internal/external disk space is effectively unlimited, how can I
> make as many as possible of the DE &/or WM on the distribution
> DVD simply available to experiment with?

Thank you to all who replied. I was able to load multiple 
DE's/WM's and compare various permutations.

What's the best? I still don't know. The exercise demonstrated 
that I had misconceptions about Debian "philosophy" and 
underlying structure [ e.g. led me to read more about package 
management].