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> I did it. I installed Mandrake on my 2nd computer. I must say this is pretty
> nice. This is my first journey into Linux. If anyone has any tips, they would
> be greatly appreciated.
Well if you need any help just post here or whatever. I don't know what kind of general tips I could offer... Hmm. But if you ever get stuck just post!
Here are a few cool things you can do though. CTRL+ALT+F-key changes terminal, usually the graphical one you start off in is F7
If you change to a text terminal, you can log in another user. If you type:
startx -- :2
then a GUI starts up for that user (add :3 :4 etc for others). The cool part is your applications are still running in the background, so when you switch users your stuff doesn't get put on hold. This way you can have more users running simultaneously. This doesn't use up more memory because Linux can share libraries instead of loading multiple copies of the same library in RAM. So 1 user running a GUI is about the same amount of RAM as even 8 users running GUIs.
If you want to watch quicktime and wmv and all that, you need to download the Win32 codec pack. Go here and download the essential codec pack. You unpack them to /usr/lib/win32 I believe. To copy the files over you'll need to be root, so either open a terminal and type "su" and enter the root password and type "konqueror" to run the file manager, or I think you can just run the command "sudo konqueror" by clicking start > run and it will open it as root.
Applications normally install their files in /usr/lib/blah or /opt. If a progarm doesn't have its own uninstall or it's not an RPM you can just delete their folder and the program will be deleted.
Your settings for all your programs are in your home folder, and the folder names all start with "." Any file/folder that starts with a "." is considered hidden. If you ever mess up your settings and a certain application doesn't start anymore just delete its settings folder and start it again. This also makes it easy to move/save your configuration, just copy all your settings folders.
If you think you crashed, maybe it's just the graphical interface. Press CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE to restart just the GUI and not the entire computer.
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