Great Meeting - Still humble.

[Joseph Lukasiewicz]

Just wanted to drop a quick note to say thank you to Peter and Bob (& JJ?), you guys have the skills and I don't know if you could tell but we are in awe....

The 8.2 Mandrake was pretty detailed...It's easy to see how you could survive "on the outside" of the Microsoft world with Linux. It's not your grandpa's character based OS anymore! 

One question (OK I lied there are a few in here) - If you start loading a distribution (Mandrake, RH, Debian...) are you "stuck" continuing down that path?  What I mean to say is, after messing around for several weeks with my Alpha I finally have it to a # prompt - How do I get it to the fancy/sexy GUI you guys were showing? (and all the other tools).  The RH I have has tools etc. but I can't get it to load, the Debian loaded but since I burned the disks froma download I'm sure I'm missing something...Is it possible to mix and match packages and "add on's" from distribution to distribution - kind of a roll your own approach?

Several of us are ultra newbies so we will need a "by the numbers cook book" approach until we can at least trot with the big dogs.

Joe Lukasiewicz



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