[Sheflug] Re: VA Linux

[Richard <nospam [at] sheflug.co.uk>]

Craig

On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Craig Andrews wrote:

> TBH, SuSE need to rethink a lot of their packaging schemes. A decent
> desktop only mode (w/ KDE2?) and a no X, network server for a starters.

I got the impression that the default KDE2 install was that way for
all distros ?  It is annoying to find that I have to logout of KDE 2.1
to use a black screen and keyboard.

> On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 PaulSims062527 [at] aol.com wrote:

> Don't worry - it's Paul Sims not an AOL cracker - AOL makes it v.v.easy to
> read my mail wherever I am. anyway.....

Oh, I was having problems telling the difference :))  I had one of
them have a go at me last week.  It was a belter.

> Has anyone else set up VA Linux 6.2.1 from the Cds Richard had at the January
> meeting? Specifically, the Server setup is very worrying - by default it sets
> up X, which is rather odd for a serious server system.

Well, I have to admit that I don't like their stuff.  So, I'd better
not say anything :)

> One good point is August, an html editor. If only it had a built-in preview
> like Quanta, can't have it all I suppose.

I've got all of that on my SuSE 7.0 workstation that I'm using to
write to you.


Thanks


Richard

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