Linked by Richard White on Tue 15th Mar 2005 11:21 UTC
My basement is like a mortuary with the remains of computers all lying in state, waiting and hoping for a new lease on life. But what is there to do with the K6s, the Celerons, and Pentiums of the past. It seems nothing short of a miracle would bring these ghosts back to life.
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Dave,
Thanks for the compliment.
1. - The default XDM login manager is indeed ugly and I installed GDM instead, which has a much nicer interface. (Just apt-get install GDM and dpkg will ask you which manager you wish to use. If you intend to install KDE, use KDM.)
2 - I don't know. Perhaps with sudo. But GDM allows the user to invoke shutdown or reboot with root password.
3 - Depends on how much hard drive space you have and how fast your computer is. It is very easy to let dselect install the desktop environment for you but that would have made for a boring article.
4 - I've tried SUSE and found only YAST to be slow. YMMV.
> And one correction: The X windows package is "x-window-system" not "x-windows-system".
Right you are, my friend.
Cheers.