From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/5098 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mohit Agarwal Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: linux question Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 16:58:12 +0530 (IST) Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: References: <5.1.0.14.1.20010717104534.02096e08@server-1> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035395712 31265 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:55:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:55:12 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20010717104534.02096e08@server-1> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:5098 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:5098 *** Hans Hagen wrote in conTeXt list today at 10:55 +0200: : I spoiled a couple of days installing linux [on this third laptop : again my video chipset is not supported; in this respect linux is way : behind windows]. I updated to Xfree 4 and now seem to have problems : with starting the window manager. Does anyone know if window managers : are supposed to run on newer drivers? No, linux is not behind windoughs. I've faced problems due to Intel motherboards (specifically D815EEA), but the X configuration has never been a problem, there have been problems configuring the sound card, though. What drivers do you have? The updates for linux are far more rapid than windoughs, so running a window manager shouldn't be a problem. Specific things can surely be answered on the XFree86.org list (the archives might as well help); please see http://www.xfree86.org/mailman/listinfo : [I use suse7.1 but am slowly getting sick of the enourmous bunch of window : stuff installed/loaded and getting rid of it seems impossible, so i wonder : if i should continue with suse anyway. Are the otherw linux's leaner?] In : any case i want a running linux/x for testing context on linux. [if i can : get my old dos-extender stuff working on win200 i will stick to windows : anyway since graphics are better there] Please switch over from Suse to other linux distributions, but *not* to windoughs. Debian should be a nice option (woody should be realeased soon ;-), even Mandrake is not bad. Well, these days most of the distributions are really huge, but there are several things that you won't need. If you select the packages yourself, it shouldn't be big. I don't quite tend to agree that graphics are better on windoughs, no. If linux is configured properly, then you have a lot of utilities that can't be imagined otherwise. For instance, you have the ImageMagick utilities, which provide commands like `convert', `animate' which are really powerful. mohit