Welcome
I will be putting together a printed NEWBIE Help File with most of the basics to get you started. I'm sorry it wasn't done for you at the Installfest, but i have been away for a few months. There will be a very small cost ($3-5) to cover copying, a folder and a floppy with more help files, tips & tricks, FAQs, and more. I can remember 'some' of the problems i had as a Newbie with Linux. I found that FINDING THE INFO i needed was the hard part, doing it was usually much easier than finding what i needed to know. As i said i can remember 'some' of the problems i had but not all of them. Therefor the best way for me is to ask you to make a very brief list of them as they happen. It doesn't matter how trivial your problem, a number of trivial problems together = major frustration add it to the list. You can use the program 'pico' or 'nano' at a terminal (the screen icon on your panel), just Type pico ,it's like a Dos program to use. It will save the file in your home/user directory. If those programs are not there use your email editor, or GEdit (Gnome), KEdit, KWord (KDE), and a lot more. In Linux you always have plenty of choices :-) You can copy and paste from those programs to your email editor by highlighting with the left mouse button then click middle button to paste. If you don't have a 3 button mouse click left and right buttons together to paste. It may be 2-3 weeks before i get it done so keep posting with your problems meantime. I hope all of you are on the internet with Linux ok, otherwise you will be doing what i had to do back then, connect with M$ :-( Have fun Trevor
