Thanks for the replies. I'll start mucking about and post back when I've made a complete mess of things

Yes, that was it - works a treat now. thank you.
Cheers.

Hi,

I decided to put salix on my old laptop this weekend and ran into problems with the keyboard. In short, although choosing the standard US qwerty keyboard, the keyboard was not a US keyboard when it came time to enter a username. I tried both accepting the default keyboard in the install, and ...

I'm building an intranet mostly for playing/testing my skills (and wasting time, mostly) - I've got 3 pcs and a laptop at home behind a router. My intention is to create a file server, a mysql or postgre database server, and a "workstation".

Is it best to simply assign static internal IP addresses ...

Thanks, Thenktor. Spot on!

Cheers.

Hi,
I tried a simple "hello world" java app in Geany but can't get out of the starting gate. When compiling I get the error in my thread title:
/bin/sh: javac: command not found

So, it seems the shell can't find the path to the java compiler (?). I'm guessing this is something that can be added ...

Salix + my Thinkpad R52 = Joy.

Thanks for the replies. I'm not even sure what I was thinking at the time but it's interesting to hear your thoughts on this - fingers crossed I'll have no problems.

Hi,
I noticed FF 3.6.4 was released (actually, Firefox gave me a notification). Kind of forgetting about package management, I downloaded the Update from the Firefox Help menu, and "installed it". Actually I had to run FF as root first ... you'd think that would have reminded me I was using Linux ...

Thanks everyone. I'll make an effort to get acquainted with Geany and see how I come along, as well as keep an eye out for medit. Cheers.