>
> Hi everyone, My name is Micah and this is my first PLUG post. I'm new to

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>
> Anyhow.. I suppose I'm not really looking for an answer for that.   For
> various reasons, I'm looking at dumping RH9 (Or at least pulling the
> drive) and starting over.  Perhaps with Debian, probably Debian (I just
> really like the ideals of the Social Contract, plus I know a few
> Debheads and I figured I could pick their brains when I ran into
> trouble  although..

If you like the Social Contract and you know Debian users, then Debian is
what you should use.

>
> sometimes I get this odd itch to try Gentoo and lately.. I've been
> trying BSD instead.  If any of you are using Debian, Gentoo or Open or
> Free BSD, could you tell me what things you like about them?  I'm
> currently booting straight into X, which is probably for the best since
> I do a lot of browsing. I just open a lot of terminal windows and go to
> it.   I've tried KDE in the past and haven't really been sold on it ,so
> this time I went GNOME and well, I've not switched back to KDE so I
> suppose that says something.  What is your preferred Window
> manager and why?

I use RH8.0 and am experimenting with Fedora (my debian machines are not
running X). I also prefer Gnome but don't like the default window manager. I
like sawfish simply because I can customize my keyboard shortcuts to do
pretty much anything.


Bart