Well, it's a bit different than 320 gave it to you.....
1. Slackware Linux, as well as all other flavors of *nix, treat drives differently than Windows. In windows, the drives are essentially the base of operations. They are divided into letters, one for each drive (or partition). Linux does not do this. Your drives aren't special. They don't deserve their own little place in the computer. They can get in line with the rest of the HW. So, when looking for a device, the only place to look, is /dev. This directory is not really comprised of files, but of devices. This is done through the use of VFS - the Virtual File System. This allows all of your HW to be treated and addressed as an object - like a file. So, because it is as such, you must mount drives, before you can access them. This is essentially, asking your kernel to connect to the device so that you can use it. You can use the method that 320 gave you, that works great for a desktop icon, but just know that if you are running it as IDE, it resides @ /dev/hdd.
2 Google is your friend. -
http://www.google.com/linux
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http://openoffice.org
4. These are file extensions, similar to those found in Windows. .gz indicates a G-Zipped file. .tgz means it is tarred, and then G-Zipped. They are different forms of compression. Tarballs, though, as they are called, are archive files presented in a form that can be used by an installer. KDE installs Themes in .tgz format.
5. Linux does not have "executables" like Windows. A file is run by the program designed to run it. Forget about .exe - it's nowhere in here.....
6. Read everything you can - do everything you can. Come here for help, and again - google is your friend.....
