Re: [Sheflug] Re: Pink Tie Linux 8.0

[David Holden <nospam [at] xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 18:03, Alex Hudson wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 11:12, David Holden wrote:
> > Recently I've only personally tried redhat 8 and mandrake 9, and despite
> > my misgivings about redhat I do prefer redhat 8. Mainly because I like
> > the bluecurve interface (sad I know) and also the really cool font
> > handling - just take you fonts and put them in your ~/.fonts directory
> > and redhat automagically loads them up! pretty neat.
> 
> If you're on debian, you can:
> 
> 	apt-get install gtk-engines-lighthouseblue
> 	apt-get install gtk2-engines-lighthouseblue
> 
> To get that Bluecurve look. Sadly no fontconfig yet; but it's coming.
> Gnome2 does look pretty good with these, I have to say - even with GTK1
> apps (although, the only one I run is Evolution - I run both Pan2 and
> Galeon2)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Alex.

Does debian have a decent installer yet from what I've heard its a pain
to install?

 dave.





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