[vox-tech] Debian configuration: X and modem and zip]

[Ashleigh Smythe]

Quoting Rick Moen:

>
>Oh, everyone has opinions.  ;->  Mine are a little out of date on the
>current state of video, because, one, I don't buy often, and two, I
>couldn't care less about whizbang 3D graphics features that are all the
>rage among people truly impassioned about these things.[1]
>


I too am not in need of 3D - I don't play games at all.  This is why 
I thought I'd skip getting the graphics card and figured I'd be fine 
with the integrated graphics - I just need X to run Lyx (LaTeX 
frontend), mozilla, OpenOffice, and Ximian Evolution - just about 
everything else I do is at the command line.

I'm still working my way through the rest of Rick's graphics comments 
to figure out what to do - I only ruled out upgrading to Sarge for 
the moment because I don't have it on CD (bought Woody from 
aboutdebian.com) and I don't have a modem to apt-get it with!  Maybe 
I should solve the modem problem (i.e. buy a real dang modem!) and 
then I'll have download options for the graphics issue.

Thanks again!

Ashleigh