General Linux Help

[redhead]

Cygwin is all the usual unix tools run under windows, you know ls, make, df etc. Plus it provides a win9x API interface, which makes it posible to port other linux programs to run under cygwin in windows.

[schotty]

Originally posted by sno2dude
what you talking bout schotty?

already have Linux on my box.... with KDE and Gnome.... have RedHat 9 to be exact......

Hehe, simple. Yous aid you were making errors in windows by trying to do it the Linux way. Just use cygwin and then windows can sorta be treated like Linux.

Kinda cool having GNOME running under windows, and having "X-Terms" under windows ;D

[sno2dude]

thanks schotty, for the technically correct but totally useless answer..... you should work for CNN... i try using linux commands in windows every now and then.... but i correct myself real quick..... thats not the problem... the thing is i wanna LEARN Linux

[schotty]

Did you purchase the box set? If so, you will have a documentation CDROM. If you didnt, fly over to RedHat.com and grab the pdf's. All inall, I personally prefer the pdfs over the docs cd's. For some reason they insist on putting all of their nice docs in HTML format. I like the pdfs alot more ... but that is my whine.

Assuming you have no clue what I am talking about (from the tone of your previous post, which is technically wrong), the docs are sys administration, setup and install, rpms building, security and so forth, not the individual app docs.

IIRC, although it wasnt available at ISO launch, there should now be a doc iso on RH's ftp. So if you have a reasonably fast connection you can fly over there and grab the iso, assuming you dont want just pdf's (which is what they have on the site).