Re: [techtalk] Debian

2001-03-08 Thread Shawn Ann Griffith
Rachel Andrew wrote: > Yet I can't install a window manager, I'd really like kde, but when I try > and use apt-get it doesnt work. I'm sure I'm just doing something silly. I > found kde.debian.net added the line of where the files were to sources.list > but it doesnt seem to find anything to inst

[techtalk] X4 and fonts

2001-03-07 Thread Shawn Ann Griffith
I've been trying to get extra font packages to work with X4 particularly the freefont and sharefont packages. I've read documentation, but so far I haven't found anything that will help. I have added their font path to my xconfig file and still nothing. Is there anyone out there who's been able

Re: [techtalk] Where's your favorite place to get software?

2000-08-18 Thread Shawn Ann Griffith
I just asked my husband about this and he said that there isn't a difference in the actual software (CD's) He also said that Linux-CD is probably more expensive because they only sell Linux CD's whereas Cheap*Bytes sells Linux, FreeBSD and all sorts of stuff. You might want to see if there is

[techtalk] AOL for Linux

2000-08-18 Thread Shawn Ann Griffith
Sorry, but I wasn't sure which mailing list to send this to, so I sent it to all 4 of them. Someone within the last few weeks was asking about using AOL for Linux and my husband gave me this url for me to post. Hope it helps the person(s) who were wondering. http://www.techpages.com/linux.h

Re: [techtalk] Using AOL with Linux???

2000-08-13 Thread Shawn Ann Griffith
My husband knows of someone who once had an applications (written in java) that allowed connections to the aol isp. But that was a long time ago and he has neither heard from that person or anything about that program ever since (Maybe AOL found out and put a stop to it, seeing as they my not