Brian,
First off... dont appologize for being a bonehead! Asking for help is some
level of evidence that your not a complete bonehead!
I dont have answers to your redhat questions, however I can strongly suggest
using any other linux distro. Many newbies have lots of success with Mandrake
and SuSE. We also have some Slackware, Debian, and Gentoo Users in this group
that can be very helpful with those systems. If you need CD's, ask the list,
someone will likely download and burn them onto cd's for you.
Besides this list, some other good resources are:
http://www.google.com/linux
newsgroups : comp.os.linux.*
irc (freenode.net is a good linux irc server, check out #linux, #linuxhelp,
and #<your distro name> (such as #slackware)
Jamie
On Monday 02 June 2003 01:33 pm, BAGGAB wrote:
: I agree we should not be talking politics in this forum (it's all rigged
: anyways.)
:
: Preface: I read yesterday that AOL is partnering with M$ to settle the
: browser lawsuit. I suspect Mozilla will be toast in a few months. So I'm
: angry and want to get away from M$ as soon as possible.
:
: So here I am, a Linux newbie with a question.
:
: Installed RH 8.0 four months ago and I'm still struggling. Some of that
: struggle was around a SMC barricade router that I ditched (stopped trying
: to get working) yesterday. Some of that struggle is just life: many
: personal distractions. I'm telling you this because I don't want you to
: assume I'm just lazy and I want someone to fix my problem for me.
:
: Problem: when I want to logon to internet I use KPPP, but I have to provide
: my root password for permission. I am concerned about running root
: permissions while connected to the internet. With all the warnings about
: operating under root I am assuming that this is a user implemented problem
: (self inflicted wound.)
:
: When I installed the OS I selected all the packages (because I wanted to
: know what was available.)
:
: When I installed the OS I selected to use the firewall and I selected all
: protocols.
:
: I have looked at users and groups, but there are many many groups (I tried
: selecting all.)
:
: I suspect that the firewall is the problem (but I can't find any info on
: how to turn it off.)
:
: I have consulted the help files with not much luck.
:
: So here I am writing this in Outlook, because I can't get out of the
: starting gate with RH 8.0. Recent events have forced me to swallow my
: stupid pride and as for some basic help.
:
: Sorry for being a bonehead.
:
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