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hi everyone mind if anyone could give me a hint on the syste linux fedora, and on what programs are compatible for the system, developing programs, etc. aside from that may i ask the question if i use fedora as an operating system should i download a driver for my unit? or ican use the same drivers that i use in windows xp.

thx in advance :D

You don't have to download "a" driver for your unit, they *should* all be included. If Fedora does not recognize all your hardware out of the box, as a noob it will be hard to fix.

You can definitely not use the same drivers as for XP (perhaps for your wlan with ndiswrapper but again that is quite complicated)

Linux has pretty broad hardware support though.

On the development programs... no idea :)

The question of development programs is often dependent on the language. For shell scripting and c programming, I usually just use vi or nedit. There's a lot of others out there. If you have a language in mind, I'm sure someone will have a good idea of what you can use.

As for programs compatible, use the Add/Remove Software menu option. That will connect you to the official Fedora repositories, where you can download/update SW for Fedora.
For development I think we need a bit more detail about exactly what you mean.
Also, please put then name Fedora and its version in your profile. It will help people give you the correct help.

For development there are several editors and IDE's available, like Kate, Anjuta, QT, KDevelop or the whole Eclipse stuff. These support multiple programming languages in terms of syntax highlighting and such things. These are all GUI tool for X-Windows. I do not assume that anyone still does full-scale programming on a shell terminal.

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thanks for the info...so you're saying that i don't need to download any drivers for my unit if i use fedora as my OS? and do you mean that fedora has the drivers for my unit? :D

so you say that the add remove software menu option will direct me to the site that will show me the programs compatible for linux fedora??

how about vb6? is it compatible with linux fedora?

i see.. that helps me a lot.. mind if u post the links where i can download development tools compatible with linux fedora thanks :D

thanks for the information.. i was thinking about python? can u rate it from 1-10 :D. i mean how was it? is it good is it user friendly?

Sort of. But it's not actually a site, it's a program that lists the available software and then will download it. That's the nice thing with software-management in Linux.

No idea. VB.net can be done through Mono though.

It's all in the software-management.

to install the devel tools just use yum and do a group install
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then this-- or something similar ( i am on CentOS at the moment )

You might want to try fedora in a virtual machine first, try virtualbox, you can test fedora, see ho it works, mess it up, play with it and you don't have to fear that you get an unworkable pc.

so how about the "yum" is yum a command and where can i see that in the fedora os?

and how about the internet connection? should i setup the internet? cz i've seen topics having problems regarding internet connection

yes mister teek a friend of mine already told me about that, he uses linux backtrack :D

Yes, your questions are screaming for an install in a virtual machine ;), play around with it, I think you'll find a lot self explainatory and easy to find (easier then to imagine everything from our stories).