Subject: Re: Linux?
To: Marinier, M. Claude, G. <claude.marinier@dreo.dnd.ca>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 04/07/2000 15:32:21
On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 08:40:26AM -0400, Marinier, M. Claude, G. wrote:
> John,
> 
> Thanks for the encouraging, informative, and humorous reply. I will
> encourage the use of NetBSD whenever I can.
> 
> One thing has to change if I am going to be effective. I have been using
> the old-style character interface (probably because I am an old-style kind
> of guy :-) on the servers and my PC. I will be more convincing if I start
> using one of the X windows systems on my PC. I am currently fighting with
> the base X that is distributed with NetBSD 1.4.2 (it does not look that
> good and the desktop is larger that my screen). I have unpacked KDE and

What video board do you have ?
Could you get the X outputs (startx >& /tmp/log from a csh-like shells) and
post it here ?

> plan to try it today. Someone suggested that I also try Gnome. Can those
> two co-exist happily on the same system? I might want to show them both to
> prospective users.

Yes, you can install both without troubles.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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