How do you install a driver, or basically any program on Linux? I'm a complete newbie, and am using Fedora Core 4. Thanks in advance.

Well, there are two ways to do this.

1) via the command line
2) via the GUI

1) From the command line, you use a tool called "urpmi". To install a piece of software (for example the X-Multimedia System - xmms) you do "urpmi xmms" (i.e. urpmi <softwarename>) at the command line as root.

2) Via the GUI, you would run KPackage (or something similar - I am unfamiliar with which softwae is installed on Fedora) browse the software package list, select software you want installed and click "install".

Both of the above should automatically determine and include dependencies, ask for CD-Roms to be loaded etc...

To find out what GUI software is installed in Fedora, explore the application menu and look under "system", "configuration" (or something similar) for an entry called "Package Management", "Install Software", "Manage Software" (again - or something along those lines).

Did a quick google on "Fedora Core 4 Package Management" - the default command line package manager for Fedora Core 4 is "yum". See here:

http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/index.ptml

Additionally, it should have a GUI called Yum Extender that you can access through:

Applications->System Tools->Yum Extender

(God that's an awful way to access a package manager, it should be something like "Application->Install Software" if anyone had any brains... How the hell is a newbie supposed to know what "Yum Extender" does?)

the major problem i had w/ FC4 is that when i updated via RHn none of the packages were signed and i ended up clicking continue for several plus hours, i messed up a few times and hit cancelclicked cancel by accident.but in answer to your question for a newbie like yself i found it easy to use precompiled RPM's and install by click open w/ when downloading from net.