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Originally posted by bilange If you want a piece of advice, screw X (the graphical interface). Learn how to configure, manage, debug your linux box from the shell (or the command line if you prefer), and you will go far. It's not easy, it's true, and you have to have alot of time dedicated for that, but you will know how youe operating system works "under the hood". For my part, I learned linux from Slackware 3. At that time, I was somewhat newbie (in fact, I knew how to nagvigate in ms-dos, and I already had a "free shell account" on the net, so it helped me to navigate into the OS directories) Then I learned from howtos, FAQ's, and sometimes asked a few questions on irc.linux.com when i was out of luck. But before asking, be sure to RTFM. As a last piece of advice, if you want more software (or need/want to do something and wonder if a software exist for that purpose), head to freshmeat .

why would i screw x it would be same that i have win 95 installed but i m using "shell" , i like x and i use it , i have been administrating linux for sometime now , for server offcourse you dont need x , but for localboxes , why sould i use lynx for surfing web when i can use mozilla or phoenix ? when i can use Xmms to listen mp3s not somekind of bash script , for workstation use x becouse there isnt any point usin shell ... my oppinion ....
right now i m using win2000 , but i was using gentoo for about year and i have right now 3 linux dedicated servers......

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thanks for the advices, I have yet to read a book that i bought, it's kinda thick but i want to read it, i was gonna get one of those linux for dummies but it only had like 200 pages and the one i got has like 1000 and covered the version of Red Had i have installed, but its ok im only a begginer and i know its not gonna be that easy to learn but i will eventually im still having trouble with the X Window and how to open and save programs ah well! gotta keep reading!