On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Hansen, Carl wrote:
> a friend gave me slackware 3.6 which I've installed on my D:\ drive, oops
> my hdb1 drive. I got farther than I thought I would with everything going
> smoothly. Now I wonder what is the next step I should tackle? I've learned
> some basic commands for looking around, adding users, multiple logins, etc.
> I don't know if I should jump into xwindows right away. Advice? I found the
It's X window (without the 's').
You will need X if you like very much to use a graphical platform.
Or if you'll want to run graphic intesive software - multimedia and office
apps. But this isn't a must. There is svgalib, which lets you run image
viewers, games and other apps that want to use graphics from the prompt.
> man command helpful but not knowing all the commands it's hard to find help
> when not sure of the question. Is there a similar way to access how to
A good startiong point is to check the applications already
installed by your distribution. So you'll find all man pages under
/usr/man. The commands are under /usr/man/man1 and /usr/man/man8. And
more info about rcfiles you'll find in /usr/man/man5.
Raider
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