So, after replacing Lilo with Grub legacy, I now had a booting SuSE Linux 7.2 Professional, just not a pretty one. I remember Marcel Gagné writing, in Linux System Administration, that he spent most of his time in text environments and would only start X when he actually needed it. I am not of his generation. SuSE’s X configuration tool, SaX, had failed me during the installation procedure, but SaX2 was also available, and that responded a lot more promising on an installed system. The first screen proposed default VGA and asked me if I liked that. I did not...