Ok I just installed slackware. I have been using Red Hat 9 but want to try something new. The only downside. Is it doesn't load the GUI. It just stays on a command line. The dumb question is. How Do I load the GUI.

first you have to configure X:

xf86config

then start your default gui:

startx

you can change what gui loads with startx in ~/.xinitrc

make sure your /etc/inittab is set to runlevel 3, or you can set it to boot to a session manager (xdm, kdm, gdm, etc.).

Thanks. I have it running now the next question is how do I create a new user

adduser

ok after I do that and enter my name tim as the user I get this message

User ID ('UID') [ defaults to next available ]:

what do I do at that part. and then when I log out. How do I log in as a different user. When I lauch startx it automaticly goes to gnome

just hit enter and linux will assign the next ID.

to log in as a different user, just ... log in as a different user.

just a note... you need to logout completely, not just from X / gnome. Type exit at command line

Also, Slack has a nice setup tool that does this automatically for you: xwmconfig. This will let you choose the default gui to run when X starts. Of course you also have to change the default run level from 3 to 4 in /etc/inittab to start x automatically.

Thanks I got a regular user logged in now. The next issue is sound. I currently have no sound. I have no idea if the sound card wasn't detected in installation or what?

try 'alsaconf' (as root) to configure sound. at least thats what works for me for a fresh slack install

Thanks I now have sound. The next 2 questions are. I saw something about an app for slackware which works kind of like the ximian red carpet and one like apt-get. What are these called and where are they located.

When I was using Red Hat I had set up a web server in order for people to go to my page I would place the files in var/www/html. That folder no longer exists. Where do they go now? Thanks for everyones help so far. From what I see I think I'm going to love slackware. It runs alot faster then Red Hat 9.

the Slackware's apt-get clone is either swaret or slapt-get. Never use a slapt-get before, so i can only tell you a little more only on swaret.

www.swaret.org

download the latest stable:

http://www.swaret.org/files/stable/s...2-noarch-1.tgz

Need to copy it from /etc/swaret.conf.sample to /etc/swaret.conf then amend the VERSION=current, set up the NIC correctly. That's about all you need to do on swaret. After all these, just enter swaret --update, and you can choose to upgrade your system from 9.1 to current with swaret --upgrade. You can also upgrade individual packages with swaret --upgrade package-name