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> From: James Rich > > For a > single user who runs his own machine it will be easy and intuitive. Okay, I'll take you up on this. I have a RedHat 7.3 system running (in character mode), and I am barely literate. I can run "up2date -u", and was recently able to scout through enough stuff to get the system running after the SSL keys crapped out. This involved FTP and RPM. Other than that, I don't have a clue. I can wander around a Linux machine with the best of them; cd and ls are my friends. I actually use Cygwin on occasion to do heavy text manipulation on Windows. But in order to really use Linux, I'll need a desktop. And herein lies the rub. I don't know how to start or configure my desktop. I'm not really sure what hardware I have on the system; when I bought it, it came with Windows installed. I have messed with X in the past and have managed to get it to work reasonably well. I have also entirely locked up my machine to the point of reinstall. I'd prefer not to do that again, since the Linux box is my mail server and is probably the weakest link in my chain. I also have a play machine and the RedHat 9.0 documentation, which I may also choose to make into my guinea pig. All it needs is a disk drive, and I have a couple of those lying around. Unfortunately the CD drive on that machine is flaky; I may need to go get a new one. So, given this, how do I get started? What steps are required in order for me to get a machine up and running wherein things are "intuitive"? This s a real question, because I would like to get a CVS server up, and not CVSNT. Joe
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