[Plonking]

Heya!

I felt brave and put red hat on one of my pcs a few months ago. The installation was easy enough... but getting red hat to do anything.. that's another matter altogehter! :pp

I was thinking of switching to mandrake or suse sometime soon, as I've been told they are best for 'newbies'... I have real problems with red hat's installer program, called a 'package manager' (or rpm, for redhat package manager)... it installs things all well and good, but has a habit of not creating links in the desktop menu to the programs you install, and with the vastly different filestructure in linux, it can get really frustrating very quickly when you are trying to run things!

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