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Linux GUI not working!!!!!!!!!

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Name: gorgeousman124
Date: May 5, 2004 at 13:34:10 Pacific
OS: WIN95/98SE/
CPU/Ram: p1 150 MHZ 96MB EDO RAM
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Hey there everyone,
I am a newbie to linux, and yesturday i installed rh linux 5.2 and it chose to use the X Windows SYSTEM which i know is a gui but when i installed everything and restarted the computer started in the command line and not in the GUI as i wanted it to!!!! Can anybody tell me what is going on!

Thankz in advance
Darin Luckie



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Response Number 1
Name: Dlonra
Date: May 5, 2004 at 14:27:54 Pacific
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why such an old version of rh !!!???

what happens if you type "startx" ???


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Response Number 2
Name: gorgeousman124
Date: May 5, 2004 at 15:31:02 Pacific
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havn`t tried it but thankz anyway and I havn`t got around to updating my version, anyone know how to do it for free?

Thankz in advance
Darin Luckie


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Response Number 3
Name: hwood
Date: May 5, 2004 at 17:19:50 Pacific
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gorgeousman124:

The latest free version of RedHat is Fedora, prior to that 9.0. I have run Redhat 9.0 and XWindows on a system as slow as 350mhz. 150mhz will probably be too slow for these versions. I would suggest RedHat 7.2 or 7.3. CD images can be downloaded here: http://www.linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=7


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Response Number 4
Name: gorgeousman124
Date: May 6, 2004 at 15:00:46 Pacific
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thankz loads hwood

Thankz in advance
Darin Luckie


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