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Re: X Windows...
On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Ziv wrote:
> First and most important, thanks to you all (Peter, Peter, Liran, Omer)
> for your help until here.
> >From what I managed to understand, there is some unique way of
> activating the X server in the debian distribution (something like ****x
> in C style) which wrapps around the server for some reason.
The reason is security. The X server is pretty unsecure when run bare on
Linux.
> Currently (as for yesterday night) I managed to run some type of X (I
> think that fvwm following peter's recomendation), so I start read the
> manuals in a more comfortable manner (and maybe even connect to the 'net
> one day)
You don't need X to connect to the net. One has nothing to do with the
other. You can browse with lynx to get missing stuff etc and there are
character based internet tools for everything.
> Still, imho, there are too many configuration files to handle each and
> every bit aspect of the system (I understand why though it doesn't make
> me any happier currently nither helped me wake this morning after only 4
> hours of sleep)
That is true, but the general idea is, that you only change the setups
that you need to change, the bulk of the scripts being preset by the
makers of the distrib.
So, either use an automated configuration generator/updater (like that
from Red Hat - I think Debian also has one), or learn some syadmin and
know much more than you do now (and stop liking the configuration
generator).
Peter