Hy! I'm a newb and i gest installed Slackware 10.0 but after installation theres nothing but...a prompt. I heard KDE or Gnome are set of user interfaces and programs or some like that, I saw Linux install them but there's nothin'...Can someone please help me out!
And another question. I would like to use Linux for programming, web hosting, Direct connect...I'm only 16 but I like to learn more 'bout Linux and C and Apache server and... all, so wich distribution of Linux shoud I start with?
Or could you give me a description of the differences betwin distributions?
I would greatly apreciate any help given!

Visit this link please.

http://please use google - mod edit: sugestion is to use search

Hi Worksman, welcome to lq. Have you configured x yet? It appears you've been dropped to the cli, have you tried startx? There's a guide here for configuring x,

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ticle&artid=16

however, it's a bit dated for slack 10. Slackware 10 has switched to xorg. Here is some xorg documentation.

http://freedesktop.org/~xorg/X11R6.8.0/doc/

good luck.

Hehe. ah well. I would also suggest using the search button up above. The reason you got the above reply is that this kind of question is asked at least weekly. Another place to go
http://slackbook.lizella.net/
http://www.slackware.com/book/

Differences between various distributions can be found at http://distrowatch.com/ or browsing this site, there's a review section about distributions. If you want configuration help or installation help the slackware site www.slackware.org is a nice one to start. It will take some time reading and searching but if you really want to learn something that shouldn't be a problem.

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Linux Journal's interview with Mr. Worksman in November 2014 issue.

LJ: I understand you forked Slackware to provide a Distro that runs on the latest IBM computers called newb OS.

WM: Yeah, I started with Slackware when I was 16. Really good Distro, but I had some ideas for the new generations of Supercomputers.

LJ: And now your newb OS is running on the new IBM Green Gene/S as the fastest Supercomputer on Earth. That must have taken a lot of research. Where do you research?

WM: You know..... at a early age, I learned real quick to use that F....ing Google site.

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Worksman, don't take it personally, just the way it works

ahhahahha

EDIT: Well hell, I remember my first time install -- at 2am on a weekday. I figured 'how hard can this linux be?'

Isn't this the kind of thing LQ was created to avoid?

At most, search the forum before posting.

Hi WMD, I couldn't agree more. At some point and time, we were all new to this. Furthermore, someone coming from a windows background, where everything is "for the most part" "auto magically" configured, could be really put off by this kind of "superiority".

I'm definitely an advocate for using google, or the search here at lq, but, sometimes a new user just needs some direction. In my humble opinion It would be best if the direction were at least polite.

I still consider myself a pretty novice linux user, so I definately agree with you Peacedog; especially the part about politeness. That said, I sure did laught @ www.justfuckinggoogleit.com. hehe.

Anyhow, workman, if you are ready for a pretty steep learning curve, and aren't worried about getting your hands dirty at the CLI (command line interface) by all means give slackware a try. If you are a little timid of the CLI I'd really suggest SuSE (just came out with a new update too - 9.2). It's super user friendly, and my fav 'newb distro.' Now just because it's considered by some as a 'newb distro' it's by no means any less powerful then majority of the others. Good luck on your endeavours in linux, and I certainly hope you stick around. .

RTFM, while often useful, is an incredibly discouraging instruction to someone brand new to Linux or a particular distro. I would ask that if that is to be the entirety of your post you just don't bother posting.

LQ members should never just tell someone to RTFM, especially in such a blunt manner, try providing some actual help and then mentioning that this is a frequesntly asked question.

I'm sorry but I don't have a permanent internet connection. Yes, you might think what the heck am I doing here then. Well, I told you I like learning things that interest me but this seems to be the problem that stops me from doing this: My connection is dial-up 3KB/s I can't do anything with it . Yes I tried getting a better connection but where I live (Romania) things happen verry slow. Maybe in three or four months they(ISP) will spread they'r cables long enought to reach me(anyway they'r speed is not too 'awsome' because its shared(LAN), but for 10€ a month...). I got Slackware 10 from a friend of mine that got his link but I can't bother him too much. I also have school so I won't be posting verry often. But thanks to all of you I will use google when I think its worth spending 2 or 3 hours gest finding out why I can't get a GUI in Slackware.
But I have a new (silly,newbie) question.
Do you think Windows 2003 Server is better than Linux, maybe easyer? (not that I'm looking for something more easy for me).

The links in post #3 should save you a bit of time.
good luck.

I love how rediculously long this thread is and yet nobody really directly answered the question...

If you are more used to Windows, 2003 server will be less alienating for you. Slackware offers much more strength and reliability (and inter-operability).