tonight is my first experience with linux. after 10 years, i have finally turned my back on windows. what are some beginner tasks i should begin doing? all i can do now is login and get online..hah. what should i start doing? and does suse come with firefox? how do i open it? and can i make a script for it?

Firefox might not be installed right now, but you should be able to install it using Yast2 - at least if you have a CD or DVD version, I don't know whether Firefox is included in the downloadable version (though I see no reason why it shouldn't).

I suppose you're using KDE, so the next thing I would do (and in fact did when I was new to Linux and SuSE) is to look around what software has been installed, and what it does. Get acquainted with KDE etc. Don't shy away from command line procedures. Sooner or later you'll run into the first program you need to compile yourself, so you can always try that out with something non-critical beforehand.

Robin

Read the Suse manuals. Check out the things they discuss.

First download Firefox from this link...

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.o...tk2+xft.tar.gz

Double click on the file and extract it to your Home directory. Then create a launcher to the firefox shell script that's inside the created folder. Browse away.

Version 0.8 will be on your CD or DVD, you can just install from YaST through the software install bit.