[plug] help with ftp and debian..

[Paul Stone]

I'm not overly worried about security as my home network is behind my ADSL
router, I am going to set up pinholing or portforwarding from the outside
world to use the linux box as a http server.

1)
Now, Id like to be able to do all the various commands from my remote
machine rather then on the linux box myself, so do I have to install telnet?
it seems that telnet isnt very popular anymore and doesnt come installed on
linux (anymore?)


2)
xwindows... I thought I chose to install it using the simple module
installation tool (along with "webserver" and "SQL" in the same spot) but
when I type "startx" nothing happens. Did those programs really get
installed? it was from the program that asks you what typical use of the
machine would be then installs things easily.. I'm not sure what its called.

3)
how do I configure programs? is there an easy menu-like system for any of
them or is it all config files? I managed to use VI to edit the apt-get
sources which wasnt too bad, but it takes a bit of getting used to.

Cheers,

Paul