when FC5 came out i was so excited i was so happy with fedora so far and i believe 4 is the greatist thing ever , so i downloaded and installed FC5 the minute it was released the next morning i was late for work because i installed it , that evening i started my quest , i wanted to update and install all the network drivers on my jumpdrive i couldnt find my CLI , to this day i have put at least 45 man hours on it and still have not found it , im fed up . when FC6 final is released i will give it 4 hours , thats all , but i post this to ask if someone whom knows where the CLI is on FC5 plese let me know , i just want to find out , its been killing me since march

If I remember correctly you have to make a conscience decision to install a WM/DE when installing Fedora otherwise it's just CLI. Both KDE and GNOME have terminals that give you command line capability. Alternately, when logging in there's probably a menu option to login in console mode. If you prefer to startx to get into your GUI environment, you could edit /etc/inittab and change the default run level to 3.

That made me chuckle a bit. If you've spent 45 hours looking for the command line, I'm not sure you'll know what to do with it once you find it. Please take no offense. The thought of you slaving over a hot computer for that long in a frantic command line quest just struck me as funny. Gotta hand it to you though, you're persistant!

I haven't touched Fedora for a while. Doesn't that come with Gnome as the default desktop? Then you can just right-click on some unused portion of your desktop (not on any icons) and from the popup menu choose "Open Terminal". Or if you want to use the menu structure you might try Applications->SystemTools->Terminal or Console or something like that. The Fedora setup of the menus might be different than I'm remembering.

i bring you to command line right now, in 1 second
type : ctrl-alt-F1 (or F2,.. F6)

Back to the gnome with
type : ctrl-alt-F1 (F7)