Hi Greg It took me three years to get anywhere near it and even now I'm scared. In the SuSE 6.2 days it was all jargon. I remember one poor guy who wanted to get his usb scanner working. You are lucky to be in at the 7.3 level. The list is ruthless, accepts no nonsense and is the best list in the world. Got a problem? They'll help you forever. If you tell them that you are a newbie then won't say dmake libgrep.so /dev/hda at all. It's the only way you can learn. The learning curve is very steep to begin with. Start with the manual that comes with the SuSE cd's. It's written in plain german english. It never says 'as stated above' nor 'as we have already seen'. It never says 'methodology design philolosphy strategy' although regrettably I have seen 'total corporate solution' just recently. Set yourself tasks. Try getting a webcam working for example. You learn by trying to do stuff and figuring out why it didn't work. Oh, but remember. No sense of humour please. Love from Clara x x x On Saturday 20 April 2002 00:39, you wrote:
Can someone point me to a site/FAQ that helps to straighten out all this jibberish I read in the postings here? I'm a newbie to Linux and keep seeing words like, (dmake, libstlport_gcc.so, recommended compilers for OO, RPM) and you guys may as well be posting in a foreign language. Is there someplace to go that has a dictionary type listing of all this stuff so I can look up these terms as I run across them?
TIA
Greg Hicks