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My experience is that DSL i very fast and has a good selection of applications except the following:

3 text editors
3 browsers (trash dillo) and the text only browser
Many games

This could save some space.
Nobody installs DSL to play games.

On my Danish and installed keyboard the at-sign in emails doesn't work. All other characters work.

It claims apt-get and synaptic is not installed. I did a default install. I don't even have an /etc/apt/sources.list There is no dpkg, no updatedb no (s)locate.

It's few quirks but important.
3 texteditors serve diffirent purpose's beaver is for gui, but what if for some reason you can't get to gui, that's where nano comes in.

3 browsers, same thing here. If you have enough ram firefox is good, but if you have less dillo is the best choice. The other works if for non gui.

Games, i never use them too.

apt-get and synaptic you have to enable them in the right click menu, i think under system or apps.
Quote (kerry @ June 09 2006,20:03)
3 texteditors serve diffirent purpose's beaver is for gui, but what if for some reason you can't get to gui, that's where nano comes in.

3 browsers, same thing here. If you have enough ram firefox is good, but if you have less dillo is the best choice. The other works if for non gui.

Games, i never use them too.

apt-get and synaptic you have to enable them in the right click menu, i think under system or apps.

Thank you very much for the valuable info on apt-get and synaptic. :-)

Regarding duplicated app's, I believe the argument 'what if, and 'nice to have' is beyond the scope of a small linux.

If you don't want GUI there would be other Linux choices.

You could also say 'if FF didn't show a page right you could use Galeon' etc.

I just think DSL is not quite consequent here and sits between two chairs. :-(

Anyway, Thanks again for the surprisingly quick reply
If your going to use apt-get you might not get a choice whether you have gui or not. You might install something that bones your gui and those apps can really help if you want to recover instead of reinstalling.

Galeon, is choke full of dependencies and relies on having mozilla installed.
Quote (kerry @ June 09 2006,20:32)
If your going to use apt-get you might not get a choice whether you have gui or not. You might install something that bones your gui and those apps can really help if you want to recover instead of reinstalling.

Galeon, is choke full of dependencies and relies on having mozilla installed.

Thanks for the warning - Galeon was just an example - I didn't contemplate installing it. However Opera is another matter; the default Debian Woodydidn't work, but as I know Opera comes in different versions, I'll go into boot camp and try my way ahead.

I like the webserver and will use it. Just need to redirect my router to the PC IP.

What do you recommend regarding firewall application?

DSL is fun!

Hitting the sack - bye
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