From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

Here's a few things that I have found in my adventuries in Linuxland:


> I think in a way it's more irritating for someone familiar with
> Windows to move to Linux than someone who's never used
> either because for the Windows experienced you're used to
> knowing how to do everything.  To go back to being a newbie
> is a hard thing to do.

Definately. I lost my temper quite often . Lotsa coffe / tea /
whatever to smooth it out.


> 3. Learning:
> Nothing has gone wrong since I've installed RedHat.  There
> have been a couple of things I've had to find out for myself
> but, like most information on Linux, it's easy to find on the
> web.  The things I've had some problems with are below:

One good tip I found out is that in Konqueror, you can read man & info
pages by writing "man:whatever" in the address field, where
"whatever" of course refers to what ever it is you were looking
to find out about. It formats the output a zillion times better than the
command line system (less or whatever), prints out pretty nicely and
generates links to find related information. Way cool!


>     - Network Browsing:  I'm yet to be successful at browsing
> my home network but haven't really given it a proper go yet.

Ha! These bozos here in this very group made me look in about three
gazillion different places for all sorts of crap to install for this, while
it was there all along (I'm joking of course - I had lots of help from you
guys :-) . Again, go to Konqueror and type "smb://server/folder",
assuming you've got Samba installed (which is included in RedHat so unless
you uninstalled it, it should be there). Amazing all this stuff that isn't
mentioned anywhere ;-)


> For example, Mandrake 9 (which I'm soon to try out)
> includes NTFS support built in (as do most Linux disto's
> except RedHat - unlucky huh?) and also MP3 support.

Watch out for KDE 2 - it's flaky at least in my Mandrake installation, kept
crashing here and there very annoyingly. Linux itself stayed up, but I had
to restart KDE and many apps (Konqueror, Nautilus, Mandrake Control Center,
OpenOffice Writer...) quite a few times.


> Mandrake also automatically mounts USB mass storage
> devices (like my digital camera).

Supposed to anyway - I couldn't get a USB ZIP drive to work, nor a USB
CD-burner. Might have been too old (ZIP drive) / new (CD-burner) hardware,
I dunno, but I didn't get neither one working.


Antti Kurenniemi

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