Micro$oft decommoditizing things -- a solution?

As some of my previous boneheaded questions to this mailing list have shown, I'm a complete newbie when it comes to Debian and Linux and the development process for Debian packages and standards, so be warned that the following may be particularly stupid but... It seems to me that, as regards the

Window Maker and Looking for the right window manager

At the moment I'm using Window Maker as my window manager but I'm having trouble figuring out how to make it do some of the things I'd like it to do. For instance, I'd like to set program specific window "looks". Like have all xterm windows come up with white writing on a black background and all

Command shells with scroll bars?

Assuming I'm using the right terminology, I can't seem to find a command shell (like csh or xterm or whatever) that gives me a little scroll bar on the side so I can use the mouse to scroll back and see what happened before. Are there any like this? Thanks, Kevin

lilo (linux only hd -> dos only hd), no solution possible?

Thanks for the help I've gotten on this so far. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be working. I seem to be caught in a catch-22 situation as far as getting the system to behave as I want it to. Here's the situation: I have one dos/windows only hd. I have one linux only hd. I want to be able to

lilo (linux -> dos) problem

I'm having trouble writing a lilo.conf file that will do what I want it to do. I can't seem to get around a specific error. My setup: 2 hard drives. /dev/hda is linux only (3.2 G) /hda1 is a bootable linux partition (primary) /hda2 is swap space (primary) /dev/hdb is dos/windows only (400

Debian Hamm Installation Questions

I'm a non-unix person installing Debian on a PC (there will only be one user) for the first time, and have a collection of installation related questions. Perhaps someone here can help. I've already run through the entire installation process once, but during the process I had to make arbitrary