dman wrote: (snip)
I use GNOME 1.4 with Sawfish. I like it a lot. I've tried various other window managers in various contexts including mwm, fvwm2, afterstep, windowmaker, elightenment, and CDE and I have found that Sawfish is the best of them.
Sounds good. I have heard a little about Sawfish. Is that compatible with potato? My only very very slight hesitancy or curiosity is that my installation is as straight as I know a stable installation. The setup I have is what got installed by choosing most of the packages. I want to find the easiest path for unskilled people I might be helping.
Ok, since you have the NICs and cable, I'll send you a snippet of my /etc/network/interfaces file when I get home. Just cut-n-paste it in (adjusting any data as necessary) and you will have a connection. Getting application-level connections to be useful can be a different story, but the network-level connection is pretty easy once you have the hardware.
Thanks. I can learn this stuff either way so I don't mind help of any kind. I have actually taught a Novell 5 software course and tried unsucessfully to network my two machines with W98SE.
Paul
