Bob,

Read these. They are the hands-on sort of tutorial so they should get you going in no time at all. Fedora Core 5 was my first Linux ever and I knew absolutely nothing about it. Then someone suggested the Stanton Finley page and it was a revelation. Stanton Finley was widely admired, particularly by novices, but he has unfortunately left the Fedora camp in favour of Ubuntu (who said Ubuntu is for idiots?). Most of the information it is still valid today. You may want to check against the second link, which covers largely the same ground but explicitly for FC6. I still recommend reading Stanton, though, it's just so well done.

http://www.stanton-finley.net/fedora...ion_notes.html
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-fc6.html

Jay 73
I have pretty well decided to go with Ubantu. I've read some comments and like what I see. I appreciate your help a lot.
Bob

Frankly, Bob, Ubuntu is what I'm using 90% of my time nowadays. It is a great distro. And so much less hassle of course.

i have to say i use fedora core 6 as my main OS. it works really well, i run mp3's, dvd's and all my other media and games on it. can't say i have any reason to complain. ubuntu on the other hand i had nothing but trouble with, which was a shame there are many things i liked about it

all in all tho i won't be changing from fedora

Mandriva is to Fedora Core as Ubuntu is to Debian.

Hello,

For DVD/MP3 functionality, try this link.

http://www.linux-noob.com/forums/ind...showtopic=2533

This worked for me.

Hope this helps.

Ubuntu is great for beginners wanting emulated windows freezing, and not a lot learning can be done from Ubuntu unless main protocols that protect a user from him/herself are removed. Fedora in my opinion is a much better distro. If you like rpm based OS's, check out CentOS. It is the free version of Red Hat Enterprise and has support. Very powerful, secure system. Although, you may not want to use something like it till you feel more comfortable in Linux if you aren't already.

I recommend Ubuntu as well (for beginners and for desktop users). I'm a Fedora user myself and there are many reasons why I still use it, however none of those reasons apply to novices.

To summarize the primary difference between Ubuntu and Fedora is that Ubuntu was designed with the Desktop in mind, while the origins of Fedora are from Redhat who have always designed for the server.

...and here I had a nice post all written up, and LQ said I couldn't because "I've never posted". Ah, well.

FC6 isn't "bad" - it's just that it's not what I'm used to, nor is it "what I like". Neither is Ubuntu, for that matter.

I could uses without all the purty pitchers while it loads, and the automatic "throw you into a graphical log-in screen". I'll give it the benefit of the doubt, see if I can get it back to non-graphical mode, and if not, probably drop back to RH7.1 and manually update from there.

"Integration" is fine, if you're talking about the '60s. And while I understand that much of it is done to ease the transition for windows users...

If I wanted something that looked like windows, I'd get windows. :-(

Sanc.

You don't want X on startup? No big deal: fire up 'vi' and change the default runlevel in /etc/inittab from 5 to 3. Save the file and reboot!

As for the "graphical log-in screen", it's easy to remove: Use vi (you're an old hand, so I won't insult you with graphical text editors) and remove 'rhgb' from the initialisation lines in /boot/grub/grub.conf

<doooof!>

Okay, 'senior moment'! Thanks bouchecl, I'll get that transitioned and stop griping now. :-) Now if I can get it to do the laundry & dishes...