This is what happens when a BSD hacker is told to use Linux

[Alvin Oga]

hi ya david

On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, David Wolfskill wrote:

> The flavor of "Linux" I chose was "Fedora Core 3."  This turns out to
> have been fortuitous,

its not just you ... i've installed fc1, fc2, fc3, fc4 and i would NOT
deploy it remotely if it's my keyboard that has to keep the box up for
more than a week or month ( not one "fedora" has lasted more than a couple
weeks .. and i've built on may different hardware )

if there's any good option .. fc-4 seems to be the better of the bunch
and lasted the longest bfore it too died ( broken security patches )

i suspect if one only installs and not attempt to harden and apply
the fc patches regularly ( daily, weekly ), you might last a little
longer

> So Fedora appears to default to useing the Gnome environment.

yup.. and yuck .. but is easily changeable to kde, but fc/redhat mixed
and merged gnome/kde into "redhat gui child"
	( it is neither kde nor gnome )

> I'm used to xdm, and as a window manager, I use a slight variation on
> tvtwm called "piewm".  It looks just like ancient, crufty twm, except it
> has a little miniature "virtual desktop" in the lower right-hand corner.
> I normally use a 3x3 array, so I have 9 virtual screens.  I have a

fvwm2 is nice for that ... vs twm, vs mwm, vs 100-others

c ya
alvin