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Hi debian users, I am a very new user of Linux. I do have some 10+ year users experience with different unixes though so It feels pretty good. I am awaiting a new high spec pc and while waiting I picked up an old used P75 with 32M and 1G hd. Without almost any knowledge about the hardware (used borrowed 14" monitor) I installed slink and slack 4.0 without any real problems. I installed slink from a cd set and it worked pretty well. So now I have some things I do wonder about. First. On my new system I plan to set up a pretty much complete slink and I also will setup a potato wich I would like to have very configured. Slink will be no problems I think but I could need some advice on what tactics to use when installing potato. I want to have a system (potato) that ofcourse have all the basic stuff but I don't want to have 10 different text editors (if I can avoid it) I really don't want emacs (sorry all emacs users, "vi" rules *smile*) I don't want all the games etc etc. So how will I acomplish this ? Should I install some very very basic task or profile and then add on using ftp ? Should I install a somewhat more complete system and then remove things I don't need and build from that ? Any other ideas ? Also could anyone update me on the use of dselect versus apt and dpkg ? I think I read something like "Is anyone really using dselect anymore?" a while ago and would really like to know the current usability. Thanks in advance for any ideas/hints/further readings/ etc Best regards JS Geocrawler.com - The Knowledge Archive