Apt-get :: Heeding the warning
heya hasty,
awright, i will give it a try, but i'm betting that you first tried dsl from the relative 'safety' of another separate os as your main, solid workspace.
i was looking for an easy way in to linux, but i was wary of stepping into dsl land if there were lotsa booby traps around. i don't have another os/computer to work with if it f*cks up (well, ok, i'm sending this from my wife's nifty eMac, but _BELIEVE ME_ this is temporary). so i'm trying to tip toe around any sleeping dogs (but i gotta know if they're around, first).
You're right that Feather, which I already tried some time ago, is a better choice than Luit. I mistakenly thought that I could install Luit to hd, but...anyway, I kept looking past feather cuz i wasn't keen on the look of it and i didn't know how to jazz it up.
the searching and testing continues...
>>i'm betting that you first tried dsl from the relative 'safety' of another separate os as your main, solid workspace.
Too right. Hasty but not senile 
Ran from the CD at first, then quickly the full install. Love at first sight as I'd always used fluxbox.
Four old boxes cluttering my desk and a half a dozen assorted hard drives. You can't believe the amount of dust they suck up 
One box has slack 9.1 on, but I've not not used it much since exploring the micro end. Find the minis do everything I want quickly. They really storm along on older equipment.
Just as well - last night there was a bang in my main box and the screen went fussy. A motherboard fan had self destructed, trouble is I can't find the plastic retainers and daren't test incase the chip fries/has fried..........
Posting from a DSL a box 8 times slower with 128mb and firefox - it's as fast as the main box with a gig - elinks faster!
The moral is never to have only the one box. It's like going on holiday and forgetting the laptop charger. BTDTGT.
yours in mild disarray.
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