Re: [techtalk] hi, I'm brand spanking new

2000-08-19 Thread Britta Koch
> The graphical stuff in Linux is provided by X, (X Windows system) > and you will certainly want to use that, with either KDE or GNOME > on top of it because they're pretty, integrated, and have handy > tools. But from my experience, when you are asked whether you want > the computer always to bo

Re: [techtalk] hi, I'm brand spanking new

2000-08-19 Thread Telsa Gwynne
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 10:08:42PM -0700 or thereabouts, jboudell wrote: > Hi, > found linuxchix.org while surfing... Cool. Welcome :) > I'm an utter linux almost newborn. I've been using Winblows forever and > have recently decided to give Linux a try. This weekend I'd like to > install Red H

Re: [techtalk] hi, I'm brand spanking new

2000-08-18 Thread Carla Schroder
Welcome! Having the HP is good, in case you need to get online. No need to get in a holy war, the silly things are just tools. Use what works. Many good answers here, tho for a newbie I think www.linuxnewbie.com is pretty darn good. And www.linux.com. Also you might want the O'Reilly book "Running