LINUX STUFF

Here's "Lame Answers For Lame Questions", but it's for people who are too lame to find this web page, so I usually just go ahead and dcc it. LAFLQ is geared to those who have just installed or obtained Linux.
INFO-SHEET is all the rudiments for the pre-Linux, like "how big is Linux?", "Does it run Word?" etc., and may help you decide whether you want to install linux or not, and which distro.

As of 19980225 I'd say the SuSE distro looks the best.

Of course, as of 1999 I'd say cLIeNUX is the best ;o).

The main thing is get CDs. Several CDs. The Monkey distro is small and runs on a fat16 partition, and is thus a good demo. Somebody is keeping monkey current, so when umsdos supports fat32 monkey probably will, so for the "which distro" problem I suggest DLing cLIeNUX and getting CD's from
cheapbytes, cdrom.com, SuSE, or your local computer commoditizer or Redhat or Stampede or a big bookstore or......

xart is my own version of xpaint. It's more self-documenting than the stock version, and has my quill operator, which makes it the only free paint proggy that does mouse velocity emulation, i.e. stroke-smoothing, in pixel mode, AFAIK. Photoshop and GIMP don't. It's also not as ugly as the stock xpaint distrib, which is tragically ugly for a paint program. xart also gives you access to all the X pixel functions in most tools. I also have an xart graphical tour which you can enter here. xart is also on metalab

PPP PPP PPP PPP PPP
As XFree improves, PPP becomes the worst newbie snag with Linux. I have my dcon package for that. dcon is a modem scripting language for unix similar to chat, but simpler and more flexible, i.e. just plain better. I'm a dcon enthusiast. This dcon package is probably the simplest way to get PPP together for Linux. My dcon package includes an extremely simple ppp script, a program to print stringed instrument fingering charts, an x86 dcon executable, a dcon manpage, and a manpage introduction to "programming". Get my dconH.tgz
or you can get the author's at metalab

This is explode , a sh script that lists every file in all the tarballs in a dir
, which is handy when you need a piece of a package, and don't know what package.

I use the CTWM window manager for X. clix the pix for more.

"slat" was an excercize in using X without a window manager. It's surprisingly useable. Kinda like Emacs sub-windows, but better. Not too good for graphical stuff though. Here's the distribution file of my SLAT window-manager-less X environment tool thingy, and here's a screen shot, in accidentally reversed colors, of my screen using slat. slat screenshot This is a catch-all or "incoming" *LINUX DIRECTORY* of my recent linux stuff not described in this file.
Again, please visit my top page if you came in a side link.