Eddie Torres wrote:
All linux distros you have to use "su" and have to login as root to do
admin. There is no getting around that to use linux some learning is going
to have to be involved and there is always going to have to be something
done with the command line. You could try Mandrake, that's about the most
gui intense distro I know. All the admin tools have gui's ( I think ).Eddie Torres
www.veloct.net
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Cyberclops" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2001 7:29 AM
Subject: Re: very sad.... No more....> What distribution did you end up using for this purpose? See, I'm
interested
> in a home/family distribution that is very user friendly. I want the user
> logons, but I don't want the hassle of having to constantly log into root.
"su"
> is not good enough, because it doesn't give you a GUI, and that's the only
kind
> of computer system I'm the least bit interested in using.
>
> Alexander Wallace wrote:
>
> > Indeed I tryed another distribution... It is only for server, no X
installed
> > or anything with a gui on the server, but it is excelent for the job,
the
> > easyest to install and configure... You can mannage everything from a
remote
> > web browser... Everything works! it's amazing!
> >
> > Thanks to all for the help and suggestions...
> >
> > >From: Cyberclops <[email protected]>
> > >Reply-To: [email protected]
> > >To: [email protected]
> > >Subject: Re: very sad....
> > >Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 15:45:59 -0600
> > >
> > >Well the good thing about Linux is that you can always try a different
> > >distribution. Sounds like for your particular needs you should try Red
> > >Hat,
> > >SuSE, or Mandrake.
> > >
> > >Alexander Wallace wrote:
> > >
> > > > PPTP is Point to point tunneling protocol... It's required if you
want
> > >to
> > > > creat VPNs and have MS clients, this is becouse MS made it's own
> > > > implementation of vpn instead of using IPSec.... And since all my
> > >clients
> > > > have w9x/2k at home, I needed PopTop... I downloaded it and
installed
> > >it,
> > > > but also required some patches for the kernel and for the pppd to
suport
> > > > mschap/mppe.. Which I foud, but I didn't know how to patch my kernel
and
> > > > ppp, all the howtos and help I foud where for redhat and such, so I
had
> > >no
> > > > luck....
> > > >
> > > > >From: Mike Pugh <[email protected]>
> > > > >Reply-To: [email protected]
> > > > >To: [email protected]
> > > > >Subject: Re: very sad....
> > > > >Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 18:59:25 +0100
> > > > >
> > > > >Christopher Cobb wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >>What's pptp?
> > > > >>
> > > > >
> > > > >one quick search on www.linuxapps.com would tell you the answer....
> > > > >
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