On Nov 30, 2007 8:41 PM, maverick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I got into my friends computer using DSL, so now I have a tool to do this the > next time. Anyway after I got in and reconfigure his passwords I told him > that we should probably update it. So I show him how easy it is with yum. > Anyway he ask me a question what are all these programs for, granted I should > have done a more specific update instead of just doing yum update but I did. > Anyway does anyone know of a place that has a quick one sentence explanation > of all the programs. I'm sure there is a way to this using yum or some other > tool and I will check on that but I was wondering if there way a webpage.
You are asking for something that (when it was last printed about 5 years ago) made a two-volume book each about 3 or 4 inches thick. It had on the average a couple of pages for each program. O'Reilly has a Linux Pocket Guide for about $10 which might be a good place to start. When I was last at That Technical Bookstore, they had it in stock. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxpg/index.html> For information on programs which are not directly represented by a command-line interface, it is probably best to start at <http://www.google.com/linux> and search by program name. carl -- carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
