Hi Shahid, Welcome to TWINCLING Society, good to see your mail. Fedora is a very good distro and as with any software you will understand more when you use is more.
You can find solutions to many problems by searching on the internet. For example, "mount windows partitions in Linux" will give you dozens of results to do that. 1. To change file associations in GNOME: Right click the file you wish to open(say a mp3 file) and select Properties Click the "Open With" tab in the Properties dialog and select the application you wish to make default for that file type. You can also add another application by clicking on Add below. You need not click any OK button in GNOME, just changing the selection saves it! 2. KDE is much like Windows, open Konqueror and right-click on the file you wish to open. >From the "Open With" menu select the application you want to open with. To make this change permanent, select "Other" from the "Open With" menu. In the dialog select the application you want and check the "Remember application association" check box at the bottom and say OK. If you don't know where the application you are looking for is, just type it on the top and it gets filtered automatically. 3. Applications are organized into nice categories in Linux, for example, Games, Office, Multimedia. Once you know the category into which your application falls ain't it easy to access it? Alternatively you can type the command in the "Run Application" dialog(Keyboard shortcut Alt+F2 unless changed) to open it. For example, typing "oowriter" in Run dialog will start OpenOffice Writer. This is my preferred way of starting apps, as this is quick. You can also browse through the menu and get to your application. 4. Software installation: You can easily install software packages on Fedora with the command: yum install <application name> as superuser(root) You may also find a GUI installer in the menu items. If you are installing a RPM package, just type in the command "rpm -ivh <Package Name>.rpm" in the terminal as superuser. Of course double clicking the RPM file should also work. To run it just type "<Package Name>" in Run dialog and press Enter or hunt for it in the menu items! 5. Mounting Windows partitions: You have to edit your /etc/fstab file to be able to mount Windows partitions. I won't discuss that here. Google for complete procedure, you will surely find thousands of pages on how to do that. If you are lost anywhere, post back here. Distros like Ubuntu, SuSE automatically mount Windows partitions for you! Some things may vary from what I said as I currently have no access to Fedora. Your blog is nice, keep those posts coming! Have fun with Linux, -- Satish Vellanki http://cs.ttu.edu/~savellan/
