From: eparker@cats.ucsc.edu (Illustrious Ezra) Subject: xdm trouble, linux praise, and more Date: 1 Apr 1993 03:22:26 GMT
First let me star tby saying I am SUPER impressed with linux.
I fooled with 386BSD for a long time and never got anything very
satisfying out of it whereas after about two weeks of messing with
Linux I have just about everything working properly including
networking, X, and all that good stuff. DOS is nearly out the door.
Only two things are bugging me currently.
I have tried to set up xdm so I can log in from within X windows, thereby
skipping most of the text based stuff which doesn't sync very well on
my monitor. Much as I've tried I just keep breaking things, so could
someone with it working please send me a copy of their /etc/rc, /etc/rc.local
/etc/inittab and whetever else they needed to change from .99.6 SLS to
get things working. Hopefully I can piece it together from that.
Also, about the only thing that stops me from scrapping DOS entirely
is lack of a good word processing/desktop publishing type program.
I know Frame Maker exists on some platforms, and there are pertty
decent text editors about, but I'm looking for a Word for Windows
type (or thereabouts) of program that will support postscript. Can
anybody help me out?
Thanks,
Ezra
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