I'm feeling confused (still, I've installed this 3 times in my entire life), yet this time very optimistic of what I will learn this time around!
got a few questions.. you know how windows has such an easy pattern to it.. everything has it's place, and is easy to find.
with Linux, where are all the configuration files?
I somehow got this 3com 2976 56k PCI modem to work (a guy on Linuxnewbie came out of the blue, and just gave me a set of commands to use to get it to work).
now I need to figure out the audio.. I'm using an Aureal Vortex 2 soundcard.
after I get audio working, I'll start fiddling around with everything.. it works pretty darn sweet now (though I didn't have much room to put it on, it sure seems somewhat bloated.. but it's not slow.. reaction times are very good (possibly because I have 96 megs of SDRAM). another oddity occured... KDE doesn't seem to be installed. I'm typing this from GNOME (which has been quite a good interface so far, lots of options to deal with).
another problem to probably most users is when looking through the file manager, you haven't a clue what half the file TYPES are, let alone what they DO!
forgot a few things..
I can't for the life of me figure out hot to put kppp somewhere else besides the taskbar (the bar where all running programs are shown). is it possible to make it kind of like the CPU monitor, where you can see that it is there, but doesn't appear to be a normal program (like say netscape).
also, netscape text is extremely small. this makes it somewhat hard to read, but the rest of linux seems to be fine.. should I just forget it, and download mozilla for linux (and delete Netscape 4.75 in the process, cause I'm low on space)?
got a few questions.. you know how windows has such an easy pattern to it.. everything has it's place, and is easy to find.
with Linux, where are all the configuration files?
I somehow got this 3com 2976 56k PCI modem to work (a guy on Linuxnewbie came out of the blue, and just gave me a set of commands to use to get it to work).
now I need to figure out the audio.. I'm using an Aureal Vortex 2 soundcard.
after I get audio working, I'll start fiddling around with everything.. it works pretty darn sweet now (though I didn't have much room to put it on, it sure seems somewhat bloated.. but it's not slow.. reaction times are very good (possibly because I have 96 megs of SDRAM). another oddity occured... KDE doesn't seem to be installed. I'm typing this from GNOME (which has been quite a good interface so far, lots of options to deal with).
another problem to probably most users is when looking through the file manager, you haven't a clue what half the file TYPES are, let alone what they DO!
forgot a few things..
I can't for the life of me figure out hot to put kppp somewhere else besides the taskbar (the bar where all running programs are shown). is it possible to make it kind of like the CPU monitor, where you can see that it is there, but doesn't appear to be a normal program (like say netscape).
also, netscape text is extremely small. this makes it somewhat hard to read, but the rest of linux seems to be fine.. should I just forget it, and download mozilla for linux (and delete Netscape 4.75 in the process, cause I'm low on space)?
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