"Paul F. Pearson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That was it - my mouse was configured incorrectly. Now all I have to do > is: > 1) look into what window managers are available
Just about every window manager you can possibly imagine (and then some) are packaged for Debian. > 2) get rlogin, etc. installed Do you really need rlogin? SSH (i.e. OpenSSH) is your friend. > 3) look into Java Woody is a lot better with respect to Java tools. If you need Sun's proprietary Java, i think it's in incoming.debian.org, waiting to go into non-free. But you should also look at GCJ and Kaffe, both of which are packaged for Debian and work. > 4) learn more about installing pacakages with Debian. My Linux on > PCs experience is limited to Red Hat. There's a lot of different layers to the Debian package management system. It's kind of confusing at first. A very simple first approximation would be to say that 'dpkg -i' is what you want to use for installing individual .deb packages you download, and to use 'apt-get' for automatically fetching new packages from the 'net or from a CD. These questions are more suitable for debian-user, by the way.
