[ltp] 20 Questions

[Jake Holmen]

Hiya all.

I've just been through the cycle of getting all depressed about Linux 
because it was slow on my P90 and hard to configure, and then I 
re-configured it with more swap space and used fvwm instead of Kde and I 
love it all again.

But I have questions.   I wish to use it as a W95 replacement, and I reckon 
the test is if my wife (computer literate, but can't re-configure stuff)  
can use linux on a day to day basis - for word processing & dial up & to 
surf the net & to send & receive faxes, THEN MY MISSION IS ACCOMPLISHED and 
I can abolish W95 from my hard drive.

Q1) how do I set up a user/ permissions for my wife so that she can "shut 
down" or "reboot" the computer when necessary, and have an icon on fvwm's 
start list?  I don't want to have her dialling out as "root" user - too 
tempting for script kiddies.

Q2) what's a good application to use to send and receive faxes (perhaps a 
gui app, Wife's not to crash hot with command prompt stuff..)

Q3) Do I need to install kernel source and headers if I am going to be 
re-making the kernel?   I thought if I could gunzip the current kernel, it 
will install into the right directory tree structure and I can make bzImage 
etc to my hearts content.   It's just that the kernel source and headers 
take up about 65 Meg of usable space on a small HD.

Q4) what's a good gui app to use to dial out ( I used to use kppp - but I'm 
not fond of KDE's slowness any more)  Or can I use kppp on top of fvwm?

thanks in advance for your help!

Jake
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