I just finished installing Gentoo on an older machine. I've just finished doing "system -u update" and so I've basically have a system ready to go to the next stage of getting a window manager installed.
This is where my Newbness comes in. Since merging over to linux from windows which did everything for me.. Heh..heh.. I tried Mandrake and found that Mandrake was a painless install. It basically did everything for me as well, just allot more to choose from versus M$ and its free. My goal is to try out a lightweight "window manager" but all that I've been used to is installing is KDE or GNOME. KDE is a fatty and although I like it allot it seems to need a ton of memory and is all around resource hog. Plus I only use it for the following: Web Browser Text Editor Konsole or Console shell Listening to music and occassionally watching mpegs or avi's. I use Gaim for Instant Messenging, Ethereal for sniffing traffic for troubleshooting, and use Shorewall firewall for its ability of Natting or Masq'ing so that more than one person can share the Internet Connection. Where my confusion comes in is the terms used. I just assumed that KDE was my linux face so to say. But then I see terms like: Window Manager...kind-of understand this..The thing thats incharge of drawing the windows.. Session Manager...Not sure what this does or the huge difference between different versions are. Theme Manager....kind-of understand this..This lets you Jazz-up your windows environment I think.. And this is where I get confused. Is there a simple not (totally ugly) window manager that I can use on my old machine and still be able to use the simple things that I use above? By the way...I just wanted to thank everyone for taking the time that responded to my previous posts. You've helped a ton. I'm on my 3rd pc with Gentoo Rocking and Rolling. Now I just need to get simple linux/unix networking/file/print/sharing down and I will be able replace everything at my moms home business saving here probably around 10 thousand $US.. Thanks, Joshua Banks __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
