Also, www.webmin.com has a web based interface to do most of the admin
tasks. Depending on the distro it may have been installed. Regardless,
there is an updated version. I started with getting the web bas admin tool
working. Understandings fell into place more easily (IMHO.)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Norb" <niccademous@yahoo.com>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 9:52 AM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Loading the General GUI
> David Roth wrote:
>
> >Hi:
> >
> >Linux is a mystery to me. A colleauge just gave me RedHat 7.0 - its been
> >installed with all its options for servers, etc... and I have restarted
to a
> >login then a dos prompt? I understand there is a windows type GUI for
the
> >OS? Can someone tell me what to type at the prompt to load the GUI? or a
> >brief overview of the OS and its GUI's? Web service is our end result
and
> >possibly email service.
> >
> >We would eventually like to migrate from Win2K and possibly host our own
> >sites, but I'm at square one with Linux.
> >
> >Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
>
> Well, the first quiestion to you is what type of installation did you
> do? Did you actually just pick the "server" option when you installed
> the system? (certainly sounds like it.) If you did, then the X WIndowing
> system might not be installed in your system. "After all," says Unix
> Wisdom, "Who needs a GUI when you're doing administration?" At any rate,
> the way to check for that is to go into your system, log in at the
> prompt (FYI: it is NOT a DOS prompt - in fact it's what DOS was TRYING
> to be), and trye in "startx." If you have X (the Windowing system)
> installed and configured (here's the key), then you'll get dropped into
> a GUI. If not. then depending on your system's response,you'll be able
> to determiner whether you have it configured or even installed.
>
> You can probably find more information on some of the basic questions in
> the following places:
>
> http://www.firstlinux.com
> http://www.linuxnewbie.org
> http://www.linuxvoodoo.com
> http://www.linux.ie/newusers/beginners-linux-guide/ (info here's a bit
> dated, though - as is your version of Red Hat).
> http://new.linuxnow.com/tutorial/preface.html
> http://www.linux.com
>
> My recomendation to you is to go to your nearest book store and grab
> yourself one of the wonderful documentation manuals out there. In fact,
> there's one that just came out that I forgot the nam of, but it's a VERY
> bright Orage book dealing with Red Hat 7.2 - there's no way to miss it.
> Just ask the sometimes friendly bookstore people to find it for you.
> There's also "Red Hat: The complete reference" by McGraw Hill, one of my
> favorites. These can get your to a good start and serve for great, long
> term refference guides.
>
> P.S. <sidenote that can get you more confused>
> There's one thing about Linux that you're gonna find odd at first -
> there is no "Gerenal GUI." In fact, there are actually over 33 different
> graphical user interfaces. The most popular are the desktop environments
> GNOME (http://www.gnome.org and http://www.ximian.com for the
> easy-to-install (free) commercial version - which I'm using right now
> :-) and the K Desktop Environment (http://www.kde.org). KDE looks more
> like what you're probably used to with Windows, where as GNOME is a bit
> more malleable (mine's more "Mac" like, though I can make it look more
> CDE like or more Windows Explorer like if I so desire). Then there are
> the more popular window managers WIndowMaker (part of the GNUstep
> project), Blackbox, Enlightenment (awesome malleability, but you need
> some power behind that sucker), IceWM and more. Once you get the hang of
> if, you can actually start mixing and matching, The KDE pannel at the
> bottom, Enlightenment as your window manager and all running with of
> the Nautilus file manager (part of Ximian's GNOME package). Weird wild
> stuff...
> </sidenote that can get you more confused>
>
> Have fun, and keep the questions commin'.
>
> Gnorb
>
>
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