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alwayslearning · 02-01-2003, 06:31 AM

Hello All,

Just installed RH 8 on a workstation with the intent of divorcing Bill (stuck with MS {no, that is not multiple sclerosis!} since 1986 starting with dos 3.???).

Any direction for a newbie "QuickStart" site AND cheatsheet of most used linux commands.

and, duh, what is RPM??????

thanks,

David

Nu-Bee · 02-01-2003, 07:01 AM

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Originally posted by alwayslearning
Hello All,

Just installed RH 8 on a workstation with the intent of divorcing Bill (stuck with MS {no, that is not multiple sclerosis!} since 1986 starting with dos 3.???).

Any direction for a newbie "QuickStart" site AND cheatsheet of most used linux commands.

and, duh, what is RPM??????

See my sig...

An RPM is "(R)edHat (P)ackage (M)anager"...but a lot of distros use it.

It simplifies installing software. Rather than having to configure/compile/install it, everything is on one command line such as this:

rpm -i Some_Program-1.1.0-1.i586.rpm

Then it does the rest...most of the time.

When you get tired of Red Hat, Mandrake is a touch simpler...but just as powerful.

alwayslearning · 02-01-2003, 07:45 AM

many thanks, Joseph.....