Well after 4 days of tinkering...

[Upright Man]

I finally have a RH 7.1 running and looking great. With truetype fonts, Mozilla almost looks as good as IE. Still having problems with some java plug-ins. Gnome is looking and working great. Love XMMS, gimp, and x-chat.

I started with Mandrake 8.0 and had a horrible experience (3 of the 4 days were spent trying to get Mandrake to not hurt my eyes). So, if any of you newbs (like me) are having probs with the your windows managers in Mandrake, you might try RedHat 7.1. Not sure why I couldn't get fonts right in Mandrake, it seemed like they changed every time I rebooted :)

Anyway, just wanted to thank everyone involved with this site. It has been a great help so far, and I am sure will be the same in the future.

UM

[coax]

That's the main thing is if it works for you.. ;)

I've had a pretty good experience so far with Mandrake 8.0/KDE myself.

On the font problem, I read somewhere to go into Control Center>lookNfeel>fonts & change the "fixed width" font to lucindatypewriter, & that made a world of difference to me.

Also in Control Center>WebBrowsing>Konquerer Browser, under the Appearance tab, I changed the font size to medium. Between doing those two things it looks fine to me. But yes I was horrified when I first went into it.. I went to the forum I hung out at at the time & was like what's all this tiny text??? <g>

[ 23 June 2001: Message edited by: coax ]