Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate posts from "John Lowell" on the Digest

[Robert G. Hays]

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Philip Webb wrote:
050405 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
 

050405 "Eric S. Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
   

maybe one should stop blaming the user
and consider that X11 is crying for a good UI for configuration.
     

I hear Mandrake have quite a nice GUI configuration tool these days.
   

IIRC when i installed Gentoo in my newly-built box in 2003,
i used the X config file created by Mandrake from my 2000 box,
as i use the same monitor for both machines.
Gentoo is not for beginners, but it doesn't hurt to have good tools
& sometimes that includes a GUI interface, eg configuring Xscreensaver.
even Vim is easier to use in the Gvim version, at least for me.
there's no harm in being a fanatic, if you know when to stop (grin).
 

True all the way.
B.T.W.,  I have a 'spare' 5.5G part on my main drive -- Something like 
that could be a good place to keep that 'user-friendly'/grade-school 
linux for things like this, I think.

P.S., so you live in a motor-home, huh?  Cool sig.
rgh.
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